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SUMMARY:MIT Visiting Artist John Akomfrah and Lina Gopaul "Reconsidering 
 Handsworth Songs"
DESCRIPTION:Handsworth Songs (1986)\, an essayistic documentary film\, ex
 plores the history of the contemporary British black experience through t
 he riots and racial disturbances that broke out in 1985 Britain. As the f
 irst major film of the Black Audio Film Collective\, the film altered doc
 umentary filmmaking\, combining actual footage of street fighting\, archi
 val material\, personal confessions and poetic voice-overs to portray a p
 rofound moment in the struggle for social justice.\n \nThis lecture is pr
 esented in collaboration with the MIT Program of Art\, Culture and Techno
 logy (ACT) as part of the Fall 2012 Lecture Series: Experiments in Thinki
 ng\, Action and Form: Cinematic Migrations.\n\nContact Information: \nLea
 h Talatinian\, 617.252.1888\, arts@mit.edu\, http://arts.mit.edu/va\n\nSp
 onsor(s): Arts at MIT\n\nMIT Visiting Artist Program\n\n
LOCATION:E15-070 
URL:http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=14984387
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