Handsworth Songs

Name: Handsworth Songs
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1986-05-08
Duration: 1 h 1 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Pervaiz Khan, Meera Syal, Yvonne Weekes

Handsworth Songs (1986)

1:01 (61 min)

Documentary

United Kingdom

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Actors and characters

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Production

Black Audio Film Collective

Release date

8 May 1986

Director

John Akomfrah

Producer

Lina Gopaul

All team (10)

Actors

Pervaiz Khan

Voice Over

Meera Syal

Voice Over

Yvonne Weekes

Voice Over

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Short description

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.