Film Series
Black Audio Film Collective
Between 1982 and 1998, the Black Audio Film Collective—a pioneering group of seven British artists and thinkers—produced an extraordinary body of poetic, allusive, and intensely personal films, videos, and “slide-tape texts” that chronicled England’s multicultural past and present and pushed the boundaries of the documentary form. BAMcinématek celebrates BAFC co-founder John Akomfrah’s acclaimed new film The Stuart Hall Project, which premiered at Sundance in 2013, with a four-day retrospective of the vital and visionary group.
A moving portrait of the influential cultural theorist, featuring a Miles Davis soundtrack.
This hypnotic essay film considers the life and legacy of the iconic civil rights leader.
This fascinating free-form documentary mosaic explores race relations in Britain.
This kaleidoscopic experimental documentary depicts the life of black revolutionary Michael X.