3 February
–
23 April 2006
Films:
Section 3: Gender, Race and SocietyIsaac Julien born 1960
Territories 1984
Territories 1984 is an experimental documentary about the Notting Hill Carnival. It locates the event within the struggle between white authority and black youth. The contested spaces of the carnival reflect its history as a symbolic act of resistance. In Territories, Julien combines carnival scenes with archive news footage, juxtaposing looks of desire and alienation from police to reveller, woman to man, man to man. Its title 'refers not only to geographical spaces, but to the occupied and controlled spaces of race, class and sexuality.'