John Akomfrah’s 1995 film titled The Last Angel of History is essentially a 45-minute-long montage that goes into depth on the origins and significance of the topic of Afrofuturism with a sci-fi spin on things. In between interview clips with many important figures to the African diaspora, Akomfrah incorporates a…

In many types of media, major technological and exploration advances–typically in regard to space–heavily influence depictions of the future. …

The film 2013 “Her” directed and produced by Spike Jonze is an American science-fiction romance comedy-drama that features Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore Twombly, a professional writer who lives in a reimagined Los Angeles and the man the movie follows. The film opens with a man reading a letter he wrote…