Imperial War Museum North
The Roads We Walked is a 22-screen film installation showcased at IWM North to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Fifth Pan-African Congress, held in Manchester in 1945. Written by poets from Young Identity, the film interweaves spoken word, sound, and archival imagery to explore the Congress’s legacy.
We produced a title card, end credits, and a series of collage inserts using archival imagery to bring together poetry, sound, and history in a unified audience experience.
Deliverables included a title card, end credits, and a series of collage inserts using archival imagery, designed to accompany the poems.
Title card.
Inserts.
We created over ten panoramic collages, designed for a 22-screen installation and interwoven with the film’s footage.
The inserts reveal archival material from the Congress through a restrained poster-photocopy aesthetic, guided by the film’s yellow-and-red palette.
The director and editor needed the freedom to pull different sections of the panoramic collage for each of the 22 screens. To support this, we delivered high-resolution panoramic compositions designed so that any portion could be isolated and used without repetition or additional adjustments.
This selection of eleven screenshots shows how the client selected and cropped one of the panoramic collages for the installation, integrating it with the film footage.
End credits.
We created end credits in the same aesthetic, building a stronger and more unified visual identity for the film’s closing moments.
Credits
Film by Soup Collective
Sound Design and Composition: AFRODEUTSCHE
3D Animation & VFX: Isa Alsaba
3D Animation and Post-Production: Max Thompson
Editor & Post-Production: Farah Khalil
Motion Graphics: Jayden Crooks, Virgini Studio
Portraiture: Alina Akbar
Title design: Virgini Studio
Director of Photography: Percy Dean
Camera Operators: Rajratna (Raj) Gajhans, Rebeca Rodriguez
Sound Recordist: Morgan Wetherill, Rory Gordziejko
Sound assist: Syd Bailey
Camera Assist: Manish Wadhwani
Sound Mix: Rory Gordziejko
Producer/Director: Mark Thomas
3D Animation & VFX: Isa Alsaba
3D Animation and Post-Production: Max Thompson
Editor & Post-Production: Farah Khalil
Motion Graphics: Jayden Crooks, Virgini Studio
Portraiture: Alina Akbar
Title design: Virgini Studio
Director of Photography: Percy Dean
Camera Operators: Rajratna (Raj) Gajhans, Rebeca Rodriguez
Sound Recordist: Morgan Wetherill, Rory Gordziejko
Sound assist: Syd Bailey
Camera Assist: Manish Wadhwani
Sound Mix: Rory Gordziejko
Producer/Director: Mark Thomas