BLACK IS BLACK
Deutschland 1968 – Director: King Ampaw – Original language: English – Subtitles: None – Length: 12 min.
Would you rent to a Black tenant? Through this simple yet revealing question, King Ampaw uncovers the realities of everyday racism in 1960s Germany. BLACK IS BLACK captures candid encounters with landlords, exposing prejudice, denial, and uneasy truths about belonging, visibility, and who is allowed to call a place home. J.N.
Biography
King Ampaw was born in Kukurantumi, Ghana. He is an actor and director and studied first in Potsdam, then at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and at the HFF Munich, where he met Wim Wenders.
Filmography
NO TIME TO DIE, DE, GH, 2009, 95 min (Feature film)
NANA AKOTO, GH, 1985, 94 min (Feature film)
KUKURANTAMI, GH, DE, 1983, 83 min (Feature film)
The digitization of the film BLACK IS BLACK was carried out as part of the film series "Von hier - Filme als Archive der Migrationsgesellschaft", curated by Tobias Hering and Björn Schmitt for the cinema of DFF.
Production: XX. Producer: XX.
