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Signs of Resistance

Archive type: Video
Archive ID: lcva_33455
Date: 1986
Location: London
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Signs of Resistance is a tape-slide production documenting and showcasing the Anti Racist Murals commissioned by the GLC during London’s Anti-Racism Year, comprising still images, audio narration and interviews, featuring Parminder Vir, Gavin Jantes, Shanti Panchal, Chila Burman, Keith Piper, Carol Kenna, Steve Lobb, Desmond Rochfort. It presents the Anti-Racist Mural Paintings as part of the Black Experience Arts Programme.

Credits

Producer: Graham de Smidt
Artistic Consultant: Gavin Jantjes
Photography: Graham de Smidt and Hilary Jacobs
Music: Mervyn Africa / Recorded by Ron Bailey
Sound mixing: Trevor Mathison (Black Audio Film Collective)
AV Equipment: Paddington Print Shop and Black Audio Film Collective
Participant: Chila Burman, Shanti Panchal, Carol Kenna, Steve Lobb, Desmond Rochfort, Parminder Vir
Additional images: Newton Brown, Desmond Rochfort, Jenny Matthews, Val Wilmer, Joanne O’Brien, plus sources including The Arts of India, Stone Age Myth and Magic, Egyptian Art
Supported by: GLC Funded – The Black Experience – The Roundhouse
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