Programmed September 2021
Two by Menelik Shabazz
The groundbreaking Barbados-born British filmmaker Menelik Shabazz, who passed away this June, was one of the leading lights of Black British cinema. Part of a generation of filmmakers who built their own institutions in order to bring their visions to the screen, Shabazz cofounded the Ceddo Film and Video Workshop, named after Ousmane Sembène’s 1977 masterpiece in an act of diasporic solidarity. His passionate engagement is evident in these two politically charged nonfiction works: the genre-defying sci-fi documentary Time and Judgement , which spans four hundred years to tell the sweeping story of the African liberation movement across the world, and The Story of Lovers Rock , an affectionate look at the Black British musical phenomenon often called “romantic reggae” and its development amid a society riven by institutional racism and police violence.
2 films
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