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Handsworth Songs
Why this pick
A formally adventurous essay-film on Britain’s racial and class tensions, assembling archive, testimony and poetic sound into a fragmented portrait of urban history.
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MOVIE1989 0h 52m GBR
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Why this pick
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Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Why this pick
Combining interviews, archive and dramatised passages, it gives colonialism, alienation and racial identity the same thoughtful, formally layered treatment.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A woman's letter to her mother, and interviews with historians and journalists reveal London as a gentrified city where people live in worlds separated by race and class.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Mandi Symonds
Olivia / Narrator (voice) (as Amanda Symonds)
Homi Bhaba
Interviewee
Andy Coupland
Interviewee
Paul Gilroy
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Savriti Hensman
Interviewee
Gail Lewis
Interviewee
Femi Otitoju
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George Shire
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