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  2. Jun 18, 2020 · The dialogue is retold in the Black Audio Film Collective’s Handsworth Songs (1986), directed by the British artist John Akomfrah, which follows the unrest that burned for three days through the Birmingham neighbourhood, in a loose documentary format.

  3. 24 October 1986. (1986-10-24) Country. United Kingdom. Language. English. Handsworth Songs is a 1986 British documentary film directed by John Akomfrah and produced by Lina Gopaul. It was filmed during the 1985 riots in Handsworth and London.

  4. May 30, 2024 · Handsworth Songs exhorts us to seek out the ghosts of other stories behind the stories of the riots. Perhaps this would be a good place to begin the exhumation. Our original review of John Akomfrahs seminal film praises its “powerful combination of anger and analysis”.

  5. Jun 19, 2020 · Handsworth Songs will stream until the 21st June via Lisson Gallery; head here to watch the film in full. Photo courtesy of Lisson Gallery. John Akomfrah and the Black Audio Film Collective's 1986 documentary Handsworth Songs’ is now streaming via London’s Lisson Gallery.

  6. Jun 22, 2020 · ‘A film essay on race and civil disorder in 1980s Britain and the inner city riots of 1985, Handsworth Songs takes as its point of departure the civil disturbances of September and October 1985 in the Birmingham district of Handsworth and in the urban centres of London.

  7. Jun 6, 2012 · So argued John Akomfrah, the director of the Black Audio Film Collective’s Handsworth Songs at a screening of the film at Tate Modern last month. Made for the Channel 4 series ‘Britain: The Lie of the Land’, the film was released in 1986, a year after riots in Handsworth, Birmingham and Tottenham.

  8. Handsworth Songs‘, Black Audio Film Collective (John Akomfrah; Reece Auguiste; Edward George; Lina Gopaul; Avril Johnson; David Lawson; Trevor Mathison), 1986

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