The Great North

The Great North (2024) is a documentary film directed by Jenn Nkiru.

Beginning at the industrial revolution of the ‘great north’, Jenn Nkiru draws lines between peoples, cities, countries, buildings, movements, bodies and spaces(s) using a mixture of archive materials and new footage. There is little stillness as we are pushed and pulled through Black histories and communities across the city of Manchester and beyond. Nkiru has termed this filmmaking process “cosmic archeology”, and it is grounded in Afro-surrealism, experimental film and the Black arts movement.

Cast

Aaron Orr

Adele Jones

Akil Scafe-Smith

Alfonso Buller

Andrew Jones

Ann Sargé

Annika Campbell-Hypolite

Dammy Aminu

Denise Southworth

Edmond Smith

Ella Spencer

Emilly Yeboah Obeng