Black Audio Film Collective Movies

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    Handsworth Songs

    Handsworth Songs

    Handsworth Songs

    MOVIE

    The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving archiv...

    Handsworth Songs
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    Who Needs a Heart

    Who Needs a Heart

    Who Needs a Heart

    MOVIE

    The tumultuous life of the controversial 1960s black revolutionary (and convicted murderer) Michael X is illustrated by a kaleidoscopic melding of sou...

    Who Needs a Heart
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    A Touch of the Tar Brush

    A Touch of the Tar Brush

    A Touch of the Tar Brush

    MOVIE

    Black filmmaker John Akomfrah believes that, for too long, being English has meant being white. In an attempt to show Englishness from the point of vi...

    A Touch of the Tar Brush
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    Seven Songs for Malcolm X

    Seven Songs for Malcolm X

    Seven Songs for Malcolm X

    MOVIE

    The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconograph...

    Seven Songs for Malcolm X
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    Twilight City

    Twilight City

    Twilight City

    MOVIE

    A fictional letter from a daughter, Olivia, to her mother in Dominica is the narrative thread connecting interviews from (predominantly) black and Asi...

    Twilight City
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    The Last Angel of History

    The Last Angel of History

    The Last Angel of History

    MOVIE

    An examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly progressing co...

    The Last Angel of History
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    Testament

    Testament

    Testament

    MOVIE

    Focuses on the Kwame Nkrumah era in Ghanaian history and paints a portrait of a female African government minister forced into exile after a coup d'ét...

    Testament
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    Memory Room 451

    Memory Room 451

    Memory Room 451

    MOVIE

    The subject matter of Memory Room 451 is the cultural and historical significance of 20th-century hairstyles – the Afro, the conk, dreadlocks – in Bla...

    Memory Room 451
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    Three Songs on Pain, Time and Light

    Three Songs on Pain, Time and Light

    Three Songs on Pain, Time and Light

    MOVIE

    Three Songs on Pain, Time and Light is a video portrait in deliberately unbalanced colours, made by Trevor Mathison and Edward George and produced wit...

    Three Songs on Pain, Time and Light
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    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality

    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality

    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality

    MOVIE

    Produced while the Black Audio Film Collective were undergraduates, Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality is the second of a two-part 35mm slide- tape...

    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
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    Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire

    Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire

    Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire

    MOVIE

    Produced while the Black Audio Film Collective were undergraduates, Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire is the first of a two-part 35mm slide-tape text en...

    Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
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    Mysteries of July

    Mysteries of July

    Mysteries of July

    MOVIE

    Mysteries of July begins with the enigmatic death of young males in police custody. The film enacts an elaborate ritual of cinematic mourning that ind...

    Mysteries of July