People, Signs & Resistance: On the Front Line
This unique project combined historic and contemporary documentary film, visual arts, collaborative web-based technologies and grassroots community action.
The goal was to preserve and share rare film footage from Brixton in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s; with the aim to bring this footage to life in today’s communities and provide a platform for people to interpret and reinterpret it in ways that are meaningful to their current challenges and experiences.
In Brixton from the late 50s to the present day, Clovis Salmon aka ‘Sam the Wheels’ has captured accounts of everyday life, protests and people offering a lens through which the struggles, sufferance and joys of those times can be seen with an authenticity uncontaminated by a media agenda.
Clovis Salmon aka ‘Sam the Wheels’ had captured throughout the late 50s and up to the present day, the accounts of everyday life, protests and people. Offering a new perspective through which the struggles, sufferance and joys of those times can be seen with an authenticity uncontaminated by any media agenda. In sharing his historical footage, Sam has served as a living lens on those times, offering his own experience of arriving in London during the 1950s as the catalyst for a community arts and heritage collaboration that resonates with present-day Brixtonians and beyond.
Events
Film screening @ The Tate Modern
A screening of the edited highlights of Sam’s films and an introduction by the man himself.
Film screening @ Urban Green
An edit of Sam’s films shown at the Urban Green in the Solar Cinema.
Exhibition “People Signs & Resistance: On the front line” opens
The exhibition ran until 21st Feb 2009 at the 198 Gallery in Brixton.
Publication launch
We hosted a Brixton themed poetry slam hosted by Michael Ryan.
An evening with Sam Clovis Salmon AKA Sam the Wheels
Sam has seen many wonderful things through his camera come and joined by writer Michael McMillan for an evening of relaxed conversation and music with Sam and friends.
Discussion Evening
Discussion evening with more government control over our lives and our means to express ourselves politically, where are the new spaces of resistance? A round table discussion where artists, writers, young people and political activists come together to discuss this issue.
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