Collective Amnesia celebrates the forgotten history of Logobi — an Ivorian folk dance originating from the streets of Abidjan, that emerged in Paris’s banlieues among Black French youth in the late 2000s through the early 2010s. The film honors digital culture and forgotten stories of French subcultures, but rather than revisiting it in a documentary and literal way, the narrative follows a young girl trying to recover memory, a metaphor for the isolation and amnesia inherent to contemporary Black life in France. As Aimé Césaire said, “A people without memory is a people without a future” highlighting the peril of cultural erasure. Oyiri chose to do it in the form of a vivid kaleidoscope.