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Handsworth Songs is a 1986 British documentary film directed by John Akomfrah and produced by Lina Gopaul. It was filmed during the 1985 riots in Handsworth and London. The production company was the Black Audio Film Collective, who also wrote the screenplay.
- Trevor Mathison
- John Akomfrah
- Lina Gopaul
- Black Audio Film Collective
Oct 24, 1986 · Handsworth Songs: Directed by John Akomfrah. With Pervaiz Khan, Meera Syal, Yvonne Weekes. Documentary examining the 1985 riots in London and Birmingham's Handsworth district that erupted in reaction to the repressive policing of black communities.
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- John Akomfrah
- 1986
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An experimental film essay on race and disorder in Britain, filmed in Handsworth and London during the riots of 1985 and incorporating newsreel and archival material. Handsworth Songs was made for the Channel 4 series Britain: The Lie of the Land.
Seen from the perspective of 2006, Handsworth Songs remains a remarkable piece of filmmaking and an astonishingly important and relevant document of cinematography. London-based Black Audio Film Collective made the film in 1986.
Oct 25, 2018 · Nationwide Foundation. Past Film/Video. A defining work of Black Audio Film Collective, a pioneering group of artists and thinkers, Handsworth Songs is a fascinating, free-form essay...
The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving archival photographs, newsreel clips, and home movie footage, the film is both an exploration of documentary aesthetics and a broad meditation social and cultural oppression through Britain’s ...
Handsworth Songs explores the idea that the riots represented less a self contained drama of rage with a single origin and trajectory than a multiplicity of issues, ambivalences , to do with race, longing and belonging – not all of which could be shored up by recourse to a rhetoric of civil disorder.
