Film
Bristol Radical Film Festival 2018: Pressure + Q&A
- Director
- Horace Ové
- Running Time
- 136 mins
One of the leading black independent filmmakers to emerge in the post-war period, Horace Ové bagged a place in the Guinness Book of Records for 1975’s Pressure, which was the first British feature from a black director. A member of the Windrush generation, Ové was part of the emerging black power movement, making his name with the influential short Baldwin’s Nigger. Pressure follows the experiences of black teenager Tony (Herbert Norville), who’s the only member of his family to be born and raised in the UK – his parents and siblings, like Ové himself, are immigrants from Trinidad. Hugely controversial in its time, the film was shelved for nearly three years by its backers, the BFI, reportedly because of its scenes of police violence. Today, the BFI hails Ové as “undoubtedly a pioneer in Black British history and his work provides a perspective on the Black experience in Britain.”
This Bristol Radical Film Festival screening will be followed by a Q&A with activist Barbara Beese. Go here for tickets.
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