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World Punk Day
07 AUG
BFI Punk.London Film Season
A day of films from across the world exploring the intersections of punk, race and religion.
Sunday 07 August 2016 14:00
James Spooner was inspired to tell his story after ‘spending half my life as a punk rocker and all of my life as a black man’. Exploring issues of racial identity within the punk scene, Spooner’s raw, DIY documentary includes insights from members of Fishbone, Dead Kennedys, TV on the Radio and many others, and documents the experiences of black punk rockers from all over America.
Sunday 07 August 2016 16:10
Michael Muhammad Knight’s 2003 novel The Taqwacores imagined an Islamic punk scene that was willed into being upon its publication. Labeled ‘Catcher in the Rye for young Muslims’, it became a manual for disaffected youth in Boston, San Antonia, Vancouver and Chicago, where bands were formed through their opposition to the traditionalists in their own communities and the clichés forced upon them from outside. This documentary follows Knight and the bands as they embark on their first US tour.
Sunday 07 August 2016 18:10
Multi-racial punk bands were formed in South Africa in the wake of the Soweto Uprising of 1976. They were inspired by political anger, a shared African identity and bootleg tapes of bands like The Sex Pistols and the Ramones. The Apartheid regime considered their very existence undesirable. Jones and Maas present the previously untold story of how punk spread through Southern Africa, to Mozambique and Zimbabwe, celebrating it with a fantastic soundtrack and remarkable archive footage.
Joint Ticket Offer
2 films £16, concs £12; 3 films 26.40, concs £18; 4 films £30, concs £24 (Members pay £1.70 less)
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