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Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture

6.0 / 10

Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture (2021)

An exploration – from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Grace Jones – of how black artists use the sci-fi genre to examine black history and imagine new, alternative futures.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

BBC

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