Film
Cinema Rediscovered: Passion of Remembrance
- Director
- Maureen Blackwood
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 82 mins
Co-directed with artist Isaac Julien, pioneering black British filmmaker Maureen Blackwood‘s 1986 debut remains her best-known film. It’s driven by two distinct storylines. The first centres on a black family in eighties London, living against a backdrop of economic depression, diverse protests (police brutality against black people, gay rights, Greenham Common) and black gay life. The second revisits the black US and UK gender politics of the sixties/seventies, played out like verbal combat in an unspecified remote location.
This Cinema Rediscovered screening will be introduced by film curator Karen Alexander. Director Maureen Blackwood will join in by Skype.
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