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The Ligali organisation is hosting an African Film Season
Celebrating African History Month through political, historical,
social and cultural films & documentaries with Spoken
Word performances supplied by Afropick
Date: Saturday
19th* & Sunday 20th Feb '05 | 6pm-11pm films and performances
start at 7pm prompt
Location: Chats
Palace 42-44 Brooksby Walk, Hackney E9 6DF - Tel: 020
8986 6714
Entrance: £FREE
(Donations welcome)
Theme: Culture and
revolution.
Travel: How to get
to Chats Palace: Homerton Station (BR-North London Line)
is a 3 minute walk away.
Buses: 242, 276, S2 and W15 run past Chats Palace.
Click
here for map
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Saturday 19th February |
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7pm: The Middle Passage (76 Minutes) PG
The Middle Passage does not set out to tell a story, there
is no dialogue instead it powefully use images and audio to
capture the horror and spiritual ruin of the Africans culturally
disinherited by the enforced separation from land and ancestor.
This deeply moving film captures the untold reality of the
"middle passage," the trans-Atlantic journey in
African human cargo. However it is not a film of horror, but
one of sorrow.
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9:30 The Spook Who Sat By The Door (102 Minutes) PG
When first shown in 1973 this film was rapidly pulled from
American cinemas. Despite box office success, it vanished
from distribution after only three weeks after pressure was
placed on the film's distributors by the FBI and their COINTELPRO
program against African Nationalist groups. Long available
only on bootleg video copies and screened only on college
campuses, it became an underground classic. The film based
on the book of the same title by Sam Greenlee has not lost
any of it's punch and remains one of the most important African
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Sunday 20th February |
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7:00 PM Amandala (103 Minutes) PG13
This stunning documentary Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part
Harmony tells the story of protest music in Azania (South
Africa). In doing so it also tells the story of the struggle
against apartheid, revealing how the music and revolution
are inseparable. Using archival footage and interviews with
musicians, freedom fighters, and even members of the former
government police, Amandla! creates a vivid and powerful
portrait of how music was crucial not only at communicating
a political message beyond words, but also sowed fear in
the racist government by supporting the resistance in the
face of bullets, tear gas, murder and rape.
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9:30 PM Five on The Black Hand
Side (96 Minutes) PG
During the 70s, when Blaxpoitation films were the norm, Five
on the Black hand side dared challenge issues such as family
unity, interracial dating, social unity, and Pan-African political
consciousness. Warm and funny whilst simultaneously hard hitting,
this film reveals all that is lacking in African American
urban films of today. |
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