CCA 5 Saturday 20th October 5.00pm-7.00pm Handsworth Songs Black Audio Film Collective UK ï 1986 ï 61mins A rare opportunity to see a one-off screening of the legendary 'Handsworth Songs' by Black Audio Film Collective, which Street Level will present as part of Document 5. The film will be introduced by John Akomfrah of the Collective who will lead a Q&A at the end. Inaugurated in 1982 and dissolved in 1998, the seven-person Black Audio Film Collective is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential artist groups to emerge from Britain in recent years. John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, Reece Auguiste, Trevor Mathison, David Lawson and Edward George produced award winning film, photography, slide tape, video, installation, posters and interventions. The point of departure of their seminal film 'Handsworth Songs', is the civil disturbances of September and October 1985 in the Birmingham district of Handsworth and in the urban centres of London. Running throughout 'Handsworth Songs' is the idea that the riots were the outcome of British society's suppression of black presence and black desire in Britain. The Film portrays civil disorder as an opening onto a secret history of dissatisfaction, associated with industrial decline and the crisis of documentary as a mode of address. The term 'Songs' refers not to musicality, but instead invokes the idea of documentary as a poetic montage of associations, familiar from the British documentary cinema of John Grierson and Humphrey Jennings. Tickets available from the CCA box office: Day Passes £10/£5 4 day Festival Passes: £30/£15 Single Screenings:£4/£2 Asylum Seekers/Refugees: Free For more information contact: docfestinfo@gmail.com Festival Hotline: 07765 396226 Music at the CCA bar Wednesday 17th October 10.00 pm - 1.00pm Shiona McPhail traditional Scots singer Roma band Thursday 18th October 10.00 pm - 1.00pm Political Song Night Bring along cd's with your favorite popular, obscure, powerful, bizarre, outrageous political songs. Also open mic to sing, rant or play the guitar... CCA: The Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow Tel: 0141 352 4900 Supported by: