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  • Production:Black Audio Film Collective
  • Released:1986-05-08
  • IMDB:tt0251113
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 intertwined narratives of racism and economic decline.
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Pervaiz Khan

Meera Syal

Yvonne Weekes

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Screening now: John Akomfrah's Handsworth Songs  Lisson Gallery

Birmingham's Flatpack Festival marks 20th Anniversary  midlandsmovies.com

How the Black Audio Film Collective Remixed Fact and Fiction  Hyperallergic

‘Handsworth Songs’ Is Essential Amid Today’s Social Unrest  Book and Film Globe

John Akomfrah: migration and memory  The Guardian

Black Audio Film Collective  Artforum

Purple Gaze  The Criterion Collection

Jeremy Harding · Ends of the Earth: ‘Mimesis: African Soldier’  London Review of Books

True/False 2018, Part 1: Bucking the Trend  Roger Ebert

Adrian Searle meets the Black Audio Film Collective  The Guardian

John Akomfrah Summons the History of Migration in Chillingly Beautiful New Films  Artsy

Scenes from a hostile environment: a history of Black British protest film and television | Sight and Sound  BFI

The Political Radicalism of British Film Collectives  Frieze

Blacks Britannica + Reggae in a Babylon  BAM | Brooklyn Academy of Music

Lucrecia Martel’s Ghosts  Film Comment

Uncharted Territories: Black Britain on Film, 1963—1986  BAM | Brooklyn Academy of Music

The Most Significant Political Films of All Time  Film Comment

Edward George: ‘You can’t have Afrofuturism without some ambience of a fascist thinking creeping in’  The Guardian

Moving images: Film maverick John Akomfrah's screen art  BBC

It Couldn’t Happen Here Blu-ray review: England out of time with the Pet Shop Boys  BFI

BAM Debuts Black British Film Festival and ‘Pressure’ Restoration — Watch Trailer  IndieWire

12 Movies to Watch to Educate Yourself About Racism and Protest History, Recommended by Experts  Time Magazine

Vagrancy and drift: the rise of the roaming essay film  The Guardian

From Pressure to The Last Tree: 10 of the best black British films  The Guardian

Things to Do in the DC Area This Weekend  Washingtonian

Meera Syal  TV Insider

Film Africa 2011: Celebrating African Cinema – by Lindiwe Dovey  African Arguments

Handsworth music legend Apache Indian awarded BEM in Queen’s New Year Honours  I Am Birmingham

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