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Small Axe is a British anthology film series, created and directed by Steve McQueen. The anthology consists of five films that tell distinct stories about the lives of West Indian immigrants in London from the 1960s to the 1980s. [1] Two episodes of the series were selected into the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.
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Dec 4, 2020 · The Most Iconic Songs From Steve McQueen's Small Axe Soundtrack. By Navi Ahluwalia. Published on 4 Dec 2020 at 19:00. BBC/McQueen. The first instalment of Small Axe premiered on BBC...
- Navi Ahluwalia
- The Photograph
- Handsworth Songs
- Red, White and Blue
Often called the godfather of Black British photography, Burke emigrated from rural Jamaica to the UK in 1965 at the age of 14 to join his parents, who ran a grocery shop. Kieran Connell notes: “Within two years [he] had begun taking photographs in Handsworth, Birmingham, making a ‘conscious decision to document the lives and experiences of black p...
Black Audio Film Collective’s most celebrated production, Handsworth Songs interrogates and reworks mainstream television and press coverage of three days of violence in September 1985 in which police were attacked and shops damaged in Handsworth, Birmingham. It does this in part by splicing such material with archive footage of Afro-Caribbean immi...
The second deployment of Boy with Flag that I want to discuss occurs in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe pentalogy. Red, White and Bluetells the true story of Leroy Logan, a second-generation immigrant who left a career as a medical research scientist to join the Metropolitan Police in 1981. Logan, played by John Boyega, has to cope with relentless racism...
Dec 4, 2020 · Red, White and Blue, the third installment of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, tells the story of real-life police officer Leroy Logan.
- Suyin Haynes
Feb 20, 2024 · In Red, White And Blue — which centres on Leroy Logan, a young Black man who joins the Metropolitan police force — the songs accompanying scenes are soulful and melancholy. Al Green, an...
- Niellah Arboine
Nov 15, 2020 · Tunefind. Small Axe Soundtrack. November 15, 2020 | 64 Songs. Follow. Jump to the latest episode > Season 1 | E3 | Red, White and Blue. After seeing his father assaulted by police officers, a young black man is driven to join the force, with hopes of changing racist attitudes from within.
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Jun 3, 2021 · The song plays during an intimate slow dance in Lovers Rock, part of McQueen’s BAFTA-nominated anthology series about the West Indian community in London between the 1960s and 1980s.
