A Watershed Moment for Black Filmmaking? An Exhibition
Sat 28 Mar
|Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft
An exhibition inspired by June Givanni’s Moving Images (1989–90) explores the emergence of a new Black British cinematic language through archival materials and film works.
Time & Location
28 Mar 2026, 11:00 – 17:00
Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft, 14 Hillgrove St, Bristol BS2 8JT, UK
About the Event
This JGPACA exhibition takes its inspiration from a season of fifteen films co-devised by June Givanni for the Watershed Media Centre in Bristol during December 1989 and January 1990. Entitled ‘Moving Images: Black Film-making into the Nineties’, this series also included a day conference for schools on ‘the representation of Black people in British television’.
Aside from giving an insight into film programming in Bristol at the end of the 1980s and very early 90s, it also serves as a timely reminder to contemporary audiences what it meant to be politically ‘Black’ in the 1980s and how new sources of funding from the British Film Institute and Channel Four had provided support for many independent Black filmmakers working within the various Film Workshop initiatives at the time.
Alongside a materials display of posters, publicity materials, photographs and documents, this exhibition presents a rotating film programme which includes excerpts of films from the Moving Images programme featuring the work of Ngozi Onwurah, Reece Auguiste and Sister D. Elmina Davis.
Curated by: benjin, Damilola Lemomu and Phoebe Beckett Chingono (JGPACA team).
This event is part of Building Community Audiences for PanAfrican Cinema in the Regions, a year-long initiative across five UK cities, supported by the BFI Screen Heritage Fund with National Lottery funding.
