The Time Is Now? Screenings of Black and Asian films from 1980s-today
What is it about the film, arts, cultural practices and products and social debates of the decades of the 80s/90s that make them resonate so closely with contemporary life in the UK today?
Curated by June Givanni, The Time Is Now? programme runs together with our exhibition The Place Is Here. The title of the show is borrowed from a line in a poem inscribed onto the surface of Lubaina Himid's work We Will Be, as a call to root the powerful set conversations and practices that emerged in1980s Britain within the context of Nottingham and the UK. The Time is Now? encourages opportunities to experience and to engage with these in relation to the strident voices in film of that time, and of now.
The Time is Now? Screening 1
Sat 4 Feb, 2-5pm
Screening of Hard Stop, 2015, directed by George Amponsah and The People´s Account, 1986, directed by Milton Bryan/Ceddo, followed by a panel discussion with the directors and cast, chaired by Patcee Francis, Syncopate Media Ltd.
The Time is Now? Screening 2
Sat 25 February, 2-5pm
Screening of the short films: Emergence, 1986 and DOC A Place of Rage, 1991 directed by Pratibha Parmar; Mama Lou, 1994, directed by Maybelle Peters; Candy Pop & Juicy Lucy, directed by Chila Burman and White Men are Cracking Up, 1994, directed by Ngozi Onwurah. Followed by Q&A chaired by Suman Buchar.
The Time is Now? Screening 3
Sat 25 Mar, 2-5pm
Screening of the film Utterance, 1990, directed by Pervaiz Khan, and Rahm (Mercy), 2016, dir. Ahmed Jamal. Followed by a Q&A session chaired by June Givanni.
June Givanni is a film curator, archivist and international consultant in African and African diaspora cinema, with Black British Cinema at its core. A leader in this sector for more than 30 years, she has worked at major institutions including the British Film Institute and with the Toronto International Film Festival. June is the director of the Pan African Cinema Archive, a by-product of her decades of film curating an archive collecting based in London. June is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College of Art.
Event:
The Time Is Now? Screenings of Black and Asian films from 1980s-todayDates:
4 Feb 2017 – 25 Mar 2017, 2pm–5pmSupported by:
