Black, British and Feminist: The History and Legacy of Ceddo, Sankofa and the Black Audio Film Collective

本项目重点关注妇女在Ceddo电影和录像工作室、Sankofa电影和录像集体和黑色音频电影集体中的表现和定位。黑色工作室在20世纪80年代兴起，试图通过一种实验电影制作实践来对抗传统的“黑色”描绘，这种实践也挑战了英国电影和电视的规范。尽管与当代相关，黑色工作室在英国电影和先锋派的研究中相对被忽视，而电影本身仍然难以接近。此外，讲习班的重要性现在主要与男性人物，特别是艾萨克·朱利安和约翰·阿科姆弗拉的工作联系在一起，其结果是妇女成员在形成讲习班的正式方法和主题关注方面所发挥的作用在很大程度上被忽视了。通过档案研究、访谈、文本分析和公众参与的结合，我的研究旨在纠正女性角色的这种边缘化，方法是突出女性在黑人作坊中的关注和策略的重要性，并确定她们所面临的多重问题（从种族和性暴力到散居经历的复杂性）。在此过程中，本研究将重新定位先锋派电影制作和英国电影历史中的黑人工作室，以突出他们构成另类女权主义英国电影制作实践的方式，这些实践将黑人女性的经验，身份和代表性置于其核心。在黑人生活运动呼吁扩大黑人的声音和加强对过去经历和不公正的历史理解的时候，该项目不仅将在历史学家中恢复黑人工作室，他们目前被忽略了，而且还鼓励公众和批判性地参与他们的工作，通过展览和相关的面向公众的活动。

This project focuses on the representation and positioning of women in Ceddo Film and Video Workshop, Sankofa Film and Video Collective and the Black Audio Film Collective. Emerging during the 1980s, the Black Workshops sought to counter conventional depictions of 'Blackness' through an experimental filmmaking practice that also challenged the norms of British film and television. Despite their contemporary relevance, the Black Workshops have been relatively neglected in studies of both British cinema and the avant-garde while the films themselves remain difficult to access. The significance of the Workshops, moreover, is now primarily linked to male figures, particularly the work of Isaac Julien and John Akomfrah, with the result that the role played by women members in shaping the Workshops' formal approaches and thematic concerns has been largely neglected. Through a combination of archival research, interviews, textual analysis and public engagement, my research seeks to redress this marginalisation of women's role by foregrounding the significance of women's concerns and strategies in the Black Workshops and identifying the plurality of issues they navigated (ranging from racial and sexual violence to the complexities of diasporic experience). In doing so, the research will relocate the Black Workshops within the histories of avant-garde filmmaking and British cinema in order to highlight the ways in which they constituted an alternative feminist British filmmaking practice that placed Black female experience, identity and representation at its core. At a time when the Black Lives Movement has called for an amplification of Black voices and an enhanced historical understanding of past experiences and injustices, the project will not only reinstate the Black Workshops within the historiographies from which they are presently omitted, but also encourage public and critical engagement with their work through an exhibition and related public-facing activities.