Mid-century short films focus on Black British life from class relations to interracial friendship to avant-garde Black Power freak-outs.
Early short films by Issac Julien and Menelik Shabazz respond to police violence, uprisings and liberation struggles by Black British communities in the 80s.
Featuring an introduction by series programmer Ashley Clark preceding the screening on May 4.
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Blood Ah Go Run (1981)
Dir. Menelik Shabazz
20min, digital
This raw documentary from Shabazz (Burning An Illusion) records the Black People's Day of Action, a mass protest that was organized by the New Cross Massacre Action Committee in response to a fire that killed 13 young Black people in the New Cross district of South London, a tragedy met with widespread indifference from the British state. The activism captured by Shabazz in this vital film was a precursor to nationwide liberation struggles
Who Killed Colin Roach (1983)
Dir. Isaac Julien
35min, digital
The first film by Sankofa Film and Video Collective, Who Killed Colin Roach responds to the death of a young Black man outside a police station, falsely claimed by the white authorities to have been a suicide.
Territories (1984)
Dir. Isaac Julien
25min, digital
Interrogating the “territories” of race, class and sexuality, this transcendent, formally expansive early film by Isaac Julien and Sankofa Film and Video Collective examines how London’s Notting Hill Carnival provides a crucial context for political struggle.
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