White Riot blends fresh interviews with archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches.
As neo-Nazis recruited the nation’s youth, RAR’s multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. As founder Red Saunders explains: ‘We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika’.
The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978’s huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR’s message to the masses.
Winner of Best Documentary BFI London Film Festival 2019.
Pre-film short I Still Breathe and post film Q&A with the films stars and RAR founders Red Saunders and Roger Huddle.
Performance Info:
Dates: 21st March 2022
Times: Doors 6pm
I Still Breathe Short 7:30pm 15 min
White Riot Film 7.45pm - 9.05pm
Q&A 9.05pm – 9.35pm
Age Guidance: 15+
Duration: Film 80 minutes | Q&A 30 minutes
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