Handsworth Songs
19861h 1mNo ratings yet
- Documentary
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 8, 1986
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Black Audio Film Collective
- Director
- John Akomfrah
- Producer
- Lina Gopaul
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0251113