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In the Sky’s Wild Noise + Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us + Panel Discussion (15)

Project a Black Planet

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A black and white still image of Walter Rodney being interviewed against a plain background.

Built around central figures of revolutionary movements in Guyana and Grenada, these films explore the ongoing struggle for liberation in the Caribbean within the context of neo-colonial oppression.

In the Sky's Wild Noise opens with footage of the funeral of Walter Rodney, the Guyanese historian and activist assassinated in 1980. An interview with Rodney follows, laying out the challenges Guyana’s working people faced under President Forbes Burnham's repressive regime, interwoven with images reflecting the society's stark economic disparity.

Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us began as a document of the revolutionary government's success, but was completed in tragic circumstances, after the killing of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and a US-led invasion. For most of its duration, however, the film serves as a vital and stirring record of a utopian moment in Caribbean history, from Bishop's New Jewel Movement deposing the despotic regime led by Eric Gairy, to various socialist reforms implemented to transform the lives of the masses.

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Film Programme

In the Sky’s Wild Noise, dir The Victor Jara Collective, Guyana, 1983, 29 mins

Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us, dirs Carmen Ashhurst, John Douglas and Samori Marksman, Grenada, 1983, 54 mins

About the Panellists

Richard Drayton is Professor of Imperial and Global History at King's College London.  As a child he was witness to part of the work of the Victor Jara Collective which produced The Terror and the Time and In the Sky's Wild Noise. In 1981, he participated in the celebration of the second anniversary of the Grenada Revolution, and saw Grenada: the Future when it was first released.

Jonathan Ali is director of programming at Miami’s Third Horizon Film Festival, programmer for London’s Open City Documentary Festival, and programmer for the experimental Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival in the Scottish Borders. His byline has appeared in Sight and Sound magazine and other publications.

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