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Oct 30, 2012 · Handsworth Songs (1986), an essayistic documentary film, explores the history of the contemporary British black experience, in particular the riots and racial disturbances that broke out in 1985 Britain. Directed by John Akomfrah and produced by Lina Gopaul, the film pushed the boundaries and techniques of documentary filmmaking, combining real ...
Handsworth Songs. A film essay on the concepts of race and civil disorder in contemporary Britain. Filmed in Handsworth and London during the riots of 1985 and using extensive archive footage, the film attempts to examines painful experiences of race in both historical and contemporary situation. The footage ranges from shots of colonial labour ...
Handsworth Songs and Peripeteia introduction and post-screening discussion with David Pendleton, John Akomfrah, and Lina Gopaul. John Quackenbush 0:00 . March 9, 2014. The Harvard Film Archive screened two films, Peripeteia and Handsworth Songs. This is the recording of the introduction and discussion that followed.
Jun 24, 2020 · Handsworth Songs alternates between the perspectives of both members of the ethnic minority communities in Handsworth and police and government officials (Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher offers her own commentary at one point). The film weaves between past and present in ways that inform and enrich each other.
Jun 15, 2020 · 15 June 2020. John Akomfrah and the Black Audio Fillm Collective's Handsworth Songs was released in 1986 as a cultural response to social unrest in Birmingham and London in October 1985, looking at the way events unfolded, the two deaths (that of black woman Cynthia Jarrett and white policeman Keith Blakelock), and the subsequent media reaction.
Jun 19, 2020 · exploring racism toward Black people in Britain. With archival photographs, newsreel clips and interviews. John Akomfrah and the Black Audio Film Collective’s 1986 documentary Handsworth Songs is now streaming via London’s Lisson Gallery. Directed by Akomfrah and originally commissioned for the Channel 4 series Britain: The Lie of the Land ...
