Black Audio Film Collective Movies

  • 1993
    Seven Songs for Malcolm X

    Seven Songs for Malcolm X

    Seven Songs for Malcolm X

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

    Seven Songs for Malcolm X
  • 1986
    Handsworth Songs

    Handsworth Songs

    Handsworth Songs

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

    Handsworth Songs
  • 1996
    The Last Angel of History

    The Last Angel of History

    The Last Angel of History

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

    The Last Angel of History
  • 1991
    Who Needs a Heart

    Who Needs a Heart

    Who Needs a Heart

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

    Who Needs a Heart
  • 1989
    Twilight City

    Twilight City

    Twilight City

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

    Twilight City
  • 1991
    A Touch of the Tar Brush

    A Touch of the Tar Brush

    A Touch of the Tar Brush

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    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...

    A Touch of the Tar Brush
  • 1988
    Testament

    Testament

    Testament

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    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...

    Testament
  • 1996
    Memory Room 451

    Memory Room 451

    Memory Room 451

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

    Memory Room 451
  • 1995
    Three Songs on Pain, Time and Light

    Three Songs on Pain, Time and Light

    Three Songs on Pain, Time and Light

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

    Three Songs on Pain, Time and Light
  • 1984
    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality

    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality

    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality

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

    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
  • 1983
    Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire

    Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire

    Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire

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

    Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
  • 1991
    Mysteries of July

    Mysteries of July

    Mysteries of July

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

    Mysteries of July