A young woman, Octavia, receives a letter from her mother, who wants to return to London, after 10 years in Dominica, to live with her daughter again. The old resentments, hurt, and anger that Octavia thought had been buried by the past resurface. Paul Gilroy reminisces about his earliest memory of London. He was walking with his father through the Docklands – before its glossy redevelopment – looking at all of the old buildings, the strange symbols daubed on the walls, and wondered what the great fire of London did to the city. He asked his father many questions that he couldn’t answer. Gail Lewis grew up around Kilburn and Harrow. She remembers the neighbourhood as derelict. George Shires, another interviewee, talks about the images of London he grew up with at his school in Zimbabwe and how they didn’t align with his impression of London as a 12 year old immigrant: dark, dull, and restrictive, with a disorienting lack of smell. Twilight City is composed of many of these kinds of encounters and anecdotes, mapping out a different representation of life in England’s capital city. 

Twilight City is presented as part of a focus programme on the work by sound composer and artist Trevor Mathison, who is part of the Black Audio Film Collective, a pioneering arts initiative founded in 1982 whose ground-breaking experimental works engaged with Black popular and political culture in Britain and lack and Asian diasporas.

Black Audio Film Collective, 1989 - 52 min

Register online for your free e-ticket

As there is a maximum capacity of visitors for all films, we work with free online ticket registration to make sure every visitor is assured of a seat during the film. To register for a seat, you will need to purchase a free ticket through our action code REWIRE#23 via the website of Filmhuis Den Haag.

• Go to Filmhuis Den Haag's website and click 'koop tickets' at the desired film;
• You then log in to use your action code. In the shopping cart, click on 'Wil je een actiecode invoeren? Klik hier'. Enter your code REWIRE#23 and click on 'invoeren'. You will now see the card type 'Action REWIRE' appear. Click 'bestellen' and 'afrekenen';
• You will receive the free e-ticket by e-mail;
• Access in combination with a 3-Day Pass or Day Pass.