Ceddo Film and Video Collective, notes

Notes

1. In Britain during the sixties and into the eighties black was used as a political label to include people of African, Asian, and Caribbean descent. Black, as Alice Correia signals, “encapsulated the strategic alliances and coalitions undertaken by a broad spectrum of people working in opposition to the marginalization, discrimination and racism they faced in white majority Britain” (2022, xi). [Return to page 1]

2. Some of these filmmakers’ productions were Riots and Rumors of Riot (dir. Caesar 1991) or Blood Ah Go Run (dir. Shabazz 1982).

3. The People’s Account was not televised, but it found audiences in British Youth Centers, underscoring the collective’s community-oriented approach to their struggle for solidarity against the Establishment.

4. The Haringey council has been named the London Borough of Culture for 2027, signalling its active involvement in radical artistic expression. [Return to page 2]

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Images:

All figures are screenshots taken from The People’s Account (1986) (https://vimeo.com/224218624) except for “Keep Britain Black” protest (image 5 1) which is a picture by the author taken at the International Slavery Museum (Liverpool), and Cohen’s Moral Panics graphic (image 9), which the author designed.