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Jan 20, 2012 · Akomfrah's Handsworth Songs attracted a huge audience when shown in the wake of last summer's riots. His new film, The Nine Muses, uses Homer to explore mass migration to Britain. J ohn Akomfrah ...
Oct 25, 2018 · A defining work of Black Audio Film Collective, a pioneering group of artists and thinkers, Handsworth Songs is a fascinating, free-form essay about race relations and civil disorder in 1980s Britain. Focusing on riots in the Handsworth district of Birmingham that were fueled by unemployment and racial tensions, this still-relevant film is ...
Sep 10, 2012 · Handsworth Songs. Film; Advertising. Time Out says. An invigorating and thoughtful documentary from the London-based Black Audio Film Collective that examines elements of the Black experience in ...
Classed as a feature, given an hour’s duration, Handsworth Songs had its theatrical release at the Metro Cinema in Leicester Square, at the heart of London’s West End, in January 1987.2 It was the first film made by Black Audio Film Collective.3 As described by Stuart Hall in London at the time, Dreaming Rivers and Handsworth Songs are ...
May 3, 2021 · Handsworth Songs. Black Audio Film Collective’s most celebrated production, Handsworth Songs interrogates and reworks mainstream television and press coverage of three days of violence in September 1985 in which police were attacked and shops damaged in Handsworth, Birmingham. It does this in part by splicing such material with archive ...
Producer. Sebastian Shah. Cinematographer. Trevor Mathison. Original Music. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. The 1985 riots in London and Birmingham's Handsworth district erupt in ...
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