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16 May 2023: Storming Heaven IV

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Storming Heaven presents a programme exploring British community-led television and videos of the 1970s in collaboration with London Community Video Archive. Building upon the recent success of People Make Television at Raven Row, the programme will take a deeper look at how access to video and experiments in community television led to underrepresented groups and activists being able to tell and retell their own stories for the first time. The screenings will focus on how changing social and political movements in the 1970s specifically can be traced via these TV experiments. It will reflect on how their current popularity is attributable to a “strange simultaneity” (Fisher) between the contemporary moment and the past, one that exposes a current shared sense of stasis, where political desire can only travel backwards. Featuring videos by the Wages For Housework Campaign, Campaign Against Racism in the Media presented by Stuart Hall, and Albany Video work depicting clashes between the National Front and anti-fascists in Lewisham. 

Screenings will be followed by a panel discussion.


Storming Heaven is a programme loosely assembled around filmmaking as a practice of solidarity and radical community building.