Radical Cinema: Past, Present and Future Histories

These three films draw on the spirit of Watkins’ work and the issues that concerned him. Onyeka Igwe asks, what happened in 1940s London when two women of different generations, but both fighting colonialism, came together to put their imagination into writing a revolutionary play? Deimantas Narkevičius sees Peter Watkins argue that political neutrality is impossible when making films. And Adam Chodzko’s The Pickers follows a group of Romanian migrant workers at a Kent farm where they pick strawberries and edit archival film.

William Fowler