Hope Pearl Strickland: Home Soon Come

From John Hansard Gallery

Home Soon Come is a sun-warmed portrait of an elderly community who meet at the African-Caribbean Care Group in South Manchester. The film interweaves interviews with community members and their families with archival moving images from a 1926 travelogue, Christmas Around the Caribbean Sea . Through these conversations and archival footage, the film reflects on diasporic journeys and the ways memory is embedded in personal possessions and the decorative details of the home....