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    HANDSWORTH SONGS

    John Akomfrah (Black Audio Film Collective)

    United Kingdom, 1986 | 59 min | Doc
    Synopsis
    A film essay on race and civil disorder in 1980s Britain and the inner city riots of 1985, as point of departure the civil disturbances of September and October 1985 in the Birmingham district of Handsworth and in the urban centres of London. Running throughout the film is the idea that the riots were the outcome of a protracted suppression by British society of black presence. The film portrays civil disorder as an opening onto a secret history of dissatisfaction that is connected to the national drama of industrial decline.
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    John Akomfrah (Black Audio Film Collective)
    Black Audio Film Collective (John Akomfrah, Reece Auguiste, Edward George, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, David Lawson, Trevor Mathison)
    Sebastian Shah
    Anna Liebschner
    Trevor Mathison
    Trevor Mathison
    (voice-over) Pervais Khan, Meera Syal, Yvonne Weekes
    Lina Gopaul - Black Audio Film Collective
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