THE BLACK AESTHETIC PRACTICE AS AN AGENT OF COMMUNITY: RADICAL ORGANISING IN THE UK AND USA (2020)

For journal Non-Fiction 02: Network published by Open City Documentary Film Festival

‘…The Black Aesthetic is a diasporic community which is called to action through many different—often competing—times and contexts; it is a community which stretches across localities and histories through the archive. An experimental visual politics can both depict and create a Black filmmaking community, through the content of Black Aesthetic filmmaking and the production models such filmmaking facilitates, seen here through the example of UK Black Film workshops and ‘The Inheritance’. Debate around the Black Aesthetic creates a productive internal discourse concerning where this community might exist, how it is structured and who is included, a key factor in early Black Arts Movement organising. For UK practices to thrive, they must follow the example of US collectives such as ‘Black Radical Imagination’ and ‘TBA’, moving between criticism, curation and filmmaking.’

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