Your Ecstatic Self

The Independent Cinema Office in association with LUX presents a special Archive Screening Day preview of our upcoming 2020 national film tour exploring the legacy, methods, aesthetic strategies and histories of the UK’s Black Film Workshop Movement that developed throughout the 1980s.

Earlier in the day, we will be screening two key films from the period – Martina Attille’s Dreaming Rivers and Milton Bryan’s The People’s Account (produced by Menelik Shabazz) – and in this session, will screen new artists’ moving image commissions from Ayo Akingbade, B.O.S.S. collective, Morgan Quaintance and Rehana Zaman.

This screening will be followed by a post-screening discussion with the artists themselves and filmmaker Menelik Shabazz; chaired by Jemma Desai, programmer and Founder, I Am Dora.