Handsworth Songs

…‘there are no stories in the riots, only the ghosts of other stories …’

Twenty-five years on from its making, the testimony captured in Handsworth Songs is as relevant today, particularly in the wake of the recent "riots" in the UK, as it was in 1986. Drawing on archival footage of the 1985 “riots”, Akomfrah's plangent, poetic reflections on the experiences of diasporic black British communities living in post-imperial Britain are as relevant today as they were then.

Dir. John Akomfrah OBE (produced by the Black Audio Film Collective, founded 1982)
UK, 1986, 59 mins
Print Source: Lux

+ Poetic response from performance poet, writer and musician Zena Edwards, and conversation with journalist, novelist and educational adviser Dreda Say Mitchell

£10 / £9 conc / £8 memb / £6 child

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