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Film Screening of the WHITE RIOT and Q&A

Winner of the Best Documentary Prize at the BFI London Film Festival last year, Rubika Shah’s energising film White Riot charts a vital London protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’ Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell. White Riot blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation’s youth, RAR’s multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance.

As founder Red Saunders explains: ‘We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika’. The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978’s huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR’s message to the masses.

The screening on 18 Sept will be followed by a Q&A with director Rubika Shah.

 

Details

Start:
September 18, 2020 | 7:00 pm
End:
September 24, 2020 | 8:30 pm
Cost:
£8 - £10
Website:
https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/whats-on/special-screenings/white-riot/

Venue

Institut français London
17 Queensberry Place
ONLINE, SW7 2DT
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