Film
Cinema Rediscovered: Maureen Blackwood Shorts
- Director
- Maureen Blackwood
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 90 mins
Following the production of Passion of Remembrance (screened elsewhere in Cinema Rediscovered), Maureen Blackwood went on to produce a range of award-winning short films, which are collected here. Her playful fiction on black beauty Perfect Image? (1988) won Best Film at the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1990. Another award-winner, the documentary A Family Called Abrew (1992) uses archive images and personal family interviews to tell the story of pre-Windrush migrants.
Inspired by a story in a newspaper, Blackwood also wrote and directed the multi-award-winning British Screen/Channel Four short drama, Home Away from Home (1993), which was an official selection for Critics’ Week at Cannes in 1994 and winner of Best European Short Film, Films des Femmes, France (1995). Also included in this selection is a rare screening of Lift Stories, a film shot very quickly while participating in a workshop run by Abbas Kiarostami. The screening will be introduced by film curator Karen Alexander.
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