Handsworth Songs
Overview
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.
Release date
08/05/1986
Votes
11
Popularity
1.9
Original Soundtrack
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Troubled
Aan ons den arbeid
Visions of Europe
My Life Inside
Enemy Alien
Benito Mussolini: Anatomy of a Dictator
All of Me
Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence
The Price of Shelter
The Price of Protest
I'm Not Racist... Am I?
Graffiti Wars
Risky Roadz: 0121
Shires - A British Bicycle Film
Meeting David Wilson
Too Black to Be French?
Speakers for the Dead
The Shelter
Mirage à l'italienne
Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1