Wednesday 25 February - 6.30-8.30pm,
Four Corners, First-Floor Studio
Tickets: £7/£5 (Unemployed/Low-waged)
PLEASE NOTE: Some of these films contain explicit imagery and are not suitable for those aged under 16 years.
Kicking off our mini-series, this jam-packed evening of four shorts investigates the importance of exclusively Queer, Black and Asian spaces in the 1980s and 90s; Gays the Word bookshop; and the daily life of a gay photographer in Brixton; an exploration of South London's gay squatting scene of the 1970s; and a response to filmmaker and Four Corners' co-founder Ron Peck's film Nighthawks.
Topher Cambell (Director of The Homecoming) will introduce his film.
The Homecoming: A Short Film about Ajamu, 1995
Drama documentary, directed by Topher Campbell.
17 min Featuring: Stuart Hall, Kobena Mercer, Sonia Boyce, Ajamu
Accessibility: With sound
Here and Now: 26.06.1983: Gay Black Group
Television Magazine, editor Ken Jones. 25 min
Featuring: Paula Ahluwalia, Isaac Julien
Accessibility: With sound
Brixton Fairies: Made possible by Squatting, 2013
Documentary, directed by Tara Hassan. 33 min
Accessibility: With sound
Nighthawks: An Exploration, 2024
Documentary, director/editor: Amaia Gonzalez. 6 mins
Accessibility: With sound and captions
PLEASE NOTE: The screening is taking place in Four Corners' First-Floor Studio which is up two flights of stairs, so is not accessible for people with mobility issues.
For further access information, please visit our website here, or contact us at info@fourcornersfilm.co.uk if you have any queries.
With many thanks to the following for their invaluable suggestions, support and advice: Helen de Witt, London Short Film Festival, Lux, MACE, BFI, Film & Video Umbrella, Laundrette Films, London’s Screen Archives.
Programme supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. www.filmlondon.org.uk/film-