Film

Territories

0.0

0h 25m

1984

Synopsis

Territories is an experimental documentary about the Notting Hill Carnival. It locates the event within the struggle between white authority and black youth, in this case over the contested spaces of the carnival, and reflects on its history as symbolic act of resistance. The film makes the case using montage: cutting carnival scenes with archive news reports - police surveillance to rioting in the street - and crossing looks of desire with alienation, from police to reveller, woman to man, man to man. Add to this a disembodied, political critique and trenchant images of police violence and the audience soon becomes aware that the documentary itself is part of the resistance.

Director

Isaac Julien

Documentary

Cast & Crew

Maureen Blackwood

Kevin Graal

Andrea Julien

Nadine Marsh-Edwards

Antonia Thomas

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