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Ndumu: The Story of Crocodile Survival in South Africa

Date: 1st June 2018 Category: Film Strands, Writing Tags: birkbeck, cinema, event, film, ndumu, simon pooley Comments: 0

by Billy Stanton On Friday 25th May Dr. Simon Pooley introduced the first UK screening of Ndumu: The Story of Crocodile Survival in South Africa, a rare documentary produced for South African television around the time of its inception in 1976, and featuring Dr Pooley’s father, Tony (A.C.) Pooley, at work in the titular crocodile conservation reservation in the region now known as KwaZulu-Natal. Ndumu works as a striking alternative to the traditional mode of nature documentary film-making; the familiar authoritative voice-over is not the sole provider of information and is indeed challenged by the voices of Tony Pooley, questioned by guests around a homely…

University of Pittsburgh Annual Lecture by Ben Orgrodnik

Date: 26th May 2018 Category: Audio, Film Strands Tags: event, film, lux, pittsburgh university, podcast, sound recording Comments: 0

1 & 2 December 2017 Annual Lecture by Ben Orgrodnik PART I: Film-as-Art: Excavating the Alliance of Art Museums and Experimental Filmmakers in the 1960s and 1970s PART II: The Rise of ‘Ruin Cinema’: Experimental Filmmaking in the US Rust Belt, 1970s-1980s This event was part of the series BIMI x LUX and University of Pittsburgh Annual Lecture With few exceptions, film and media studies scholarship continues to ignore or misrepresent the role of the art museum as a vital alternative site for exhibiting noncommercial film, instead perpetuating an essentialist stereotype that museums are hostile to film, and a corollary myth of the experimental filmmaker…

Final Words on Horace Ove– Laura Mulvey and Sasha Roseneil

Date: 21st May 2018 Category: Film Strands, Video Tags: bimi, birkbeck, cinema, event, film, horace ove, laura mulvey, sara roseneil, video recording, watch Comments: 0

Hailed as Britain's first black feature film, Pressure is a hard-hitting, honest document of the plight of disenchanted British-born black youths. Set in 1970s London, it tells the story of Tony, a bright school-leaver, son of West Indian immigrants, who finds himself torn between his parents' church-going conformity and his brother's Black Power militancy. As his initially high hopes are repeatedly dashed – he cannot find work anywhere, potential employers treat him with suspicion because of his colour – his sense of alienation grows. In a bid to find a sense of belonging, he joins his black friends who, estranged from their submissive parents, seek…

Introduction to Pressure: A Tribute to Horace Ove

Date: 21st May 2018 Category: Film Strands, Video Tags: bimi, birkbeck, cinema, event, film, horace ove, laura mulvey, video recording, watch Comments: 0

Talk: The Cultural Politics of Horace Ove

Date: 21st May 2018 Category: Film Strands, Video Tags: bimi, birkbeck, cinema, event, film, gail lewis, horace ove, ron ramdin, video recording, watch, yasmeen narayan Comments: 0

Hailed as Britain’s first black feature film, Pressure is a hard-hitting, honest document of the plight of disenchanted British-born black youths. Set in 1970s London, it tells the story of Tony, a bright school-leaver, son of West Indian immigrants, who finds himself torn between his parents’ church-going conformity and his brother’s Black Power militancy. As his initially high hopes are repeatedly dashed – he cannot find work anywhere, potential employers treat him with suspicion because of his colour – his sense of alienation grows. In a bid to find a sense of belonging, he joins his black friends who, estranged from their submissive parents, seek…

Talk: Horace Ove: Documentary Filmmaker

Date: 21st May 2018 Category: Film Strands, Video Tags: bimi, birkbeck, cinema, david somerset, event, film, horace ove, june givanni, laura mulvey, video recording, watch Comments: 0

Horace Ove is a Trinidadian-born British filmmaker, painter and writer and one of the leading black independent film-makers to emerge in Britain since the post-war period. Ove’s first film, Pressure, which tells the story of a London teenager who joins the Black Power movement in 1970’s, was banned for two years by its own backers, the British Film Institute (BFI). Other works include the 1978 documentary The Skateboard Kings, about pioneering Californian skateboarders Tony Alva and Stacey Peralta. Ove’s 1986 film, Playing Away starring Norman Beaton, is perhaps his most well-known work. The film centred around the residents of fictional British village Seddington, who invite…

Talk: Horace Ove and Television

Date: 21st May 2018 Category: Film Strands, Video Tags: bimi, birkbeck, cinema, event, film, horace ove, janet mcCabe, jim hawkins, peter ansorge, Television, TV history, TV studies, video recording, watch Comments: 0

Continuing with footage from the Horace Ove Symposium, this recording brings together contributions from Peter Ansorge (producer 'Empire Road') and Jim Hawkins (script-writer 'A Hole in Babylon'). This session is chaired and introduced by Janet McCabe. This session is built around two works by Horace Ove. The first work focuses on in this session is A Hole in Babylon (1979) http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id a piece made by Ove as part of the long-running anthology series A Play for Today. This can be watched in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NH7EUS9zFY. The second drama addresed is The Orchard House (1991) http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/570201/index.html. This is a four part period drama produced for Channel…

Talk: The Cultural Politics of Horace Ove

Date: 21st May 2018 Category: Film Strands, Video Tags: bimi, birkbeck, cinema, event, film, horace ove, julian henriques, laura mulvey, robert buckler, watch Comments: 0

With Julian Henriques, Robert Buckler and Laura Mulvey. Horace Ové was born in Belmont, Trinidad and Tobago, in 1939. He came to Britain in 1960 to study painting, photography and interior design. After working as a film extra in Rome, he returned to London to study at the London School of Film Technique. He began work on Man Out, a surreal film about a West Indian novelist who has a mental breakdown. The project was never completed, but in 1966 Ové directed The Art of the Needle, a short film for the Acupuncture Association. This was followed by another short, Baldwin's Nigger (1969), in…

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