Haringey Community Cinema

Concerning Violence presents a striking, contemporary portrait of African anti‑colonial resistance, built from archival footage drawn from Swedish documentaries filmed between 1966 and 1987. These vivid, on‑the‑ground images capture some of the most audacious episodes in the fight against colonial domination. The film weaves this material together with passages from Frantz Fanon’s seminal 1960 text The Wretched of the Earth, a work that continues to offer essential insight into modern forms of neocolonial power, the turmoil it produces, and the uprisings that emerge in response.

Black Nations/Queer Nations? is an experimental documentary that captures the landmark 1995 conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora. The gathering convened influential scholars, activists, and cultural workers to examine the economic, political, and social realities shaping the lives of diasporic lesbians, gay men, bisexual, and transgender people. The film weaves together standout moments from the event while tracing the links between popular culture and emerging Black queer media. It underscores the lasting significance of this historic meeting for Black LGBTQ+ communities.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is an Oscar‑nominated historical documentary that uncovers the surprising collision of jazz, decolonisation, and Cold War politics. It revisits the events that drove Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to confront the UN Security Council after the assassination of the Congolese leader, Patrice Lumumba, and tracks how the arrival of sixteen newly independent African nations reshaped global power. As the United States scrambles to regain influence, Louis Armstrong is dispatched as a cultural envoy to Congo, part of an effort to divert attention from a CIA‑backed coup. The film offers a sharp, fast‑moving re‑examination of political theatre and the radical force of music.

The Stuart Hall Project traces the journey of Stuart Hall, who left Jamaica for Oxford in 1951 and went on to become a defining voice in the emergence of cultural studies and a major force in British intellectual life. Drawing entirely on archival film, photographs, and the music of Miles Davis, the documentary mirrors Hall’s own fluid, exploratory thinking as it moves through questions of memory, identity, and the shifting political landscape of the late twentieth century. The result is a rich, layered portrait of the man whose ideas helped shape the New Left and transformed how we understand culture itself.

Adam Elliott-Cooper received his PhD from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Oxford, in 2016. He has previously worked as a researcher in the Department of Philosophy at UCL, as a teaching fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick and as a research associate in the Department of Geography at King’s College London.

His first monograph, Black Resistance to British Policing, was published by Manchester University Press in May 2021. He is also co-author of Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (Pluto Press, 2021).

Adam sits on the board of The Monitoring Group, an anti-racist organisation challenging state racisms and racial violence.

Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka is Associate Professor in Film, Culture and Society in the School of European Languages, Culture and Society within UCL’s Faculty of the Arts and Humanities, and a Faculty Associate of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation. Prior to UCL, he was Lecturer in Film and Literature the Department English and Related Literature at the University of York and the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was an LSE Fellow in Film Studies within the Department of Sociology. 

Nwonka is the Principal Investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project The Colour of Diversity: A Longitudinal Analysis of the BFI Diversity Standards Data and Racial Inequality in the UK Film Industry (2021-2024), a major study of race and racism in the UK film sector and the efficacy of cultural diversity policy.

Dr. Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and researcher from London. She is a lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at Goldsmiths University. Her work focuses on the utility of the political imagination in the textual and visual cultures of radical social movements, examining the role cultural production plays in materialist resistance and collective conceptualisations of futurity. She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press, 2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press, 2021), the forthcoming Against Literature (Peninsula Press, 2026) and a member of ‘bare minimum’, an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective. She occasionally curates and is a member of the organising team at the Feminist Library based in Peckham.

Mahvish Ahmad is an Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics. Before joining LSE, she was an A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape. She completed her PhD in Sociology at Cambridge. Earlier, Mahvish was a journalist covering military and insurgent violence in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region, and co-founded the bilingual Urdu/English magazine Tanqeed with Madiha Tahir.

Rinaldo Walcott Is Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies. He holds the Carl V. Granger Chair in Africana and American Studies. He is a writer and critic. His research is in the area of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies, gender and sexuality with interests in nations, nationalisms, multiculturalism, policy and education broadly defined. As an interdisciplinary Black Studies scholar, Walcott has published in a wide range of venues on everything from literature to film, to theatre to music to policy. His articles have appeared in scholarly journals and books, as well as popular venues like newspapers and magazines and media online sources. He often comments on black cultural life for radio and TV. 

Walcott has edited or co-edited multiple works including Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (Insomniac, 2000). Walcott is the author of Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada (Insomniac Press, 1997 with a second revised edition in 2003). He is also the author of Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies (Insomniac Press, 2016) and co-author of Black Life: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom (Arbeiter Ring, 2019). In 2021, Walcott published The Long Emancipation: Moving Towards Freedom (Duke University Press) and On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition (Biblioasis) which was nominated for the Heritage Toronto Book Award, longlisted for the Toronto Book Awards, a Globe and Mail Book of the Year, and listed in CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021.

Tiny Lungs is a black-led audio-first production house rooted in radical community and creative disruption.

From audio art to film and live installation, our work moves fluidly across form. We believe that now more than ever, this is the moment to dig deeper and to reclaim what has always been ours:

The right to challenge convention, to experiment and to create freely in community and in power.