Throughout the course of October, Brixton Village will play host to weekly film screenings on Tuesdays in their new Contemporary Arts Space.
The CROSSOVER series of feature length films and shorts will showcase themes surrounding the African diaspora and include work by up and coming creatives including Akinola Davies and Ethosheia Hylton hosted by T A P E Collective, Minute Shorts and Think Cinematic.
50% of ticket sales will go to Black Minds Matter UK for Black History Month.
Here’s the full listing of the screenings:
Tues 6th Oct MINUTE SHORTS
After finishing his first short film project, Minute founder Janvier Wete entered it into film festivals but was rebuffed at every turn, leaving him with no option but to upload it onto the internet where it would at least see some light. It was here that he realized how many people were in a similar position and just how many amazing shorts were floating in the ether, unknown to the world. It was then that Minute was born, a platform for filmmakers and film fans to showcase and celebrate this artform.
Tues 13th Oct AS SEEN BY BLACK WOMEN
A mixed-race teen struggles to come of age in 1980s Brixton. A quirky British filmmaker explores her connection to her family’s roots in the ‘Black Power’ movement and ponders what it means to not be good at being Black. An intimate spotlight of the visionary Bradford Young – ‘Star Wars’ cinematographer and the first Black director of photography to be nominated for an Oscar.
THINK Cinematic presents a collection of short films by British Black women filmmakers exploring the Black Atlantic. Ethosheia Hylton directs ‘BRIXTON ROCK’, capturing a vulnerable young man’s heartfelt reunion with his estranged mother in a powerful screen adaptation of acclaimed writer Alex Wheatle’s novel by the same name. In ‘THIS IS MEANT TO BE ABOUT STOKELY CARMICHAEL’, writer-director Isis Thompson navigates the complexities of internet dating, race and her British-Caribbean family’s personal connection to a revolutionary Black American icon. ‘CINEMA IS THE WEAPON’ is British-Mauritian writer-director Corine Dhondee’s intimate homage to the genius of artist Bradford Young, the first African-American cinematographer ever to be nominated for an Academy Award, and the celebrated director of photography on projects including Ava DuVernay’s ‘Selma’, ‘When They See Us’, ‘Arrival’ and ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story.’
THINK Cinematic founder Jan Asante will be joined by director Corine Dhondee for a postscreening Q&A.
Tues 20th Oct TAPE COLLECTIVE
T A P E was founded in 2016 as a response to the lack of representation on screen. They decided to bring exciting screenings to a deprived audience, championing the forgotten could-be cult films of the festival circuit and programmes of women of colour both behind and in front of the camera.
Over the years T A PE have curated a number of well rounded screenings bringing together film, art, music, talks and more into one space and event with a focus on representation, identity, heritage and stories from diasporas. They have also produced two zine issues: the first one called They Thought We Were Token, and the second issue, Moon Sisters, released six months later. Both are available to order here.
Since starting with an unlicensed film in a community cafe, T A P E has expanded to include content writing, talks, consultation, curating, and production. Founders Angie Moneke and Isra Al Kassi were joined by Nellie Alston in 2017 in curating, developing partnerships and delivering interesting events which platform both short and feature films.
About GOOD WICKEDRY With major films like CANDYMAN (directed by Nia Da Costa) set to be released this October, and Jordan Peele revitalising conversations around race relations through GET OUT and US, T A P E Collective are throwing it back to one of the earlier films to so viscerally explore race, injustice and trauma through horror. TALES FROM THE HOOD (1995), written & directed by Rusty Cundieff and exec-produced by Spike Lee, is an anthology film where six intertwining vignettes explore horror folklore through the lens of real-lived experiences of Black people in America (and beyond).
Alongside this free screening in Brixton Village, T A P E is accepting submissions from BIPOC filmmakers who have made shorts on the theme of horror/inner demons as a response to social injustices, which will be made available online. This can be anything from tales of an inner jinn, a haunting Yūrei, voodoo, or even a more realist take on the chilling effect of prejudice and microagressions. The selected shorts will be showcased on T A P E’s new upcoming online cinema platform, GOOD WICKEDRY, and go live on the same day as the TALES FROM THE HOOD screening. Further information and deadline for submissions can be found by following @tapecollective on Instagram”
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Note: Each screening will have a limited safe socially distanced attendance of 36.
TICKETS HERE: https://dice.fm/bundle/brixton-village-crossover