Valentin Noujaïm and Space Afrika's Opera Omnia is a nocturnal descent through Manchester's industrial afterlife. Shot on 35mm, 16mm, and CCTV, it follows two teenagers through erased working-class spaces while soprano Axelle Fanyo performs. Dante's Inferno provides the framework, but the film's power lies in its layered visual textures—grainy film, surveillance footage, and operatic staging—that make memory feel ph…

Space Afrika's haunting soundscapes act as the city's pulse, guiding the drift between underground clubs, redeveloped lots, and glass towers that reflect nothing. Premiered with Manchester Camerata at Aviva Studios and Fondation Cartier, the film is a ghostlike voyage through architecture and encounter. It resists nostalgia, instead capturing erasure as an ongoing, distorted signal—a visual and sonic meditation on w…