RECLAIM THE FRAME
ONLINE:
WHITE RIOT
VIRTUAL PREVIEW
FRI 19.05.20 6.30PM
Join Reclaim the Frame tonight for a live Q&A for documentary on Rock Against Racism, WHITE RIOT with speakers director Rubika Shah, Gary Powell from The Libertines, author Daniel Rachel and Bengi Ünsal, Head of Contemporary Music, Southbank Centre and Meltdown Festival Director.
Rubika Shah’s energising film charts a vital London protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’ Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell. White Riot blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation’s youth, RAR’s multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. As founder Red Saunders explains: ‘We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika’. The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978’s huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR’s message to the masses. A timely film that shows we're still fighting some of the same fights,
WHITE RIOT is available to watch online from 17-21 June at: https://www.modernfilms.com/whiteriot/everyman,
You can watch the film at 6.30pm and then join Reclaim the Frame for a special panel discussion at 8pm where Gary Powell (The Libertines), will also perform after the discussion.
Then London’s musical innovators Spiritland will host the online WHITE RIOT afterparty with special mixes from three artists - Bill Brewster, Hollie Cookand Dennis Morris.