Relic 0 (2021)

The first film in the series Relic 0 forms part of Larry Achiampongs Relic Traveller Phase 1 a multidisciplinary project manifesting in performance audio moving image and prose Taking place across various landscapes and locations the project builds upon a postcolonial perspective informed by technology agency and the body and narratives of migration Relic 0 which is the prelude to the series is a short film that moves between African and Western based vistas and focuses on specific architectures of colonialism as delivered by an anonymous narrator These discoveries deliver poetic moments of the sublime met with increasingly harrowing tales of trauma speaking to the sinister way that states of anxiety fear and displacement are both generated and policed in postcolonial society The throb of the electronic score and ringing clarity of the narrators testimony usher in a new landscape and temporality born from cracks in a traumatised apocalyptic present