Monday 23 July 2007, 18.30

Mathieu Kassovitz, France 1995, Cert. 18

La Haine (Hatred), 1995,  is a dark urban thriller by French director Mathieu Kassovitz which explores themes of racism, violence and disaffected youth in modern suburban Paris. The film takes a look at a racially diverse group of young people trapped in harsh and grim housing projects outside of Paris where a riot has broken out and has been quelled by the police. Shot in black and white, in a cinéma-vérité style, La Haine depicts one day in the lives of three teenage friends and somehow anticipates the outburst of riots that broke out in France in the fall of 2005, following the death of two young men in the hands of the police.

This film is a launch event for a series of seminars and events Re-Visioning Black Urbanism - 2, which will be hosted at Tate Modern in 2008. The series will creatively examine how black artists, musicians, cultural workers and urban practitioners are re-thinking and re-visioning the process of urban change and the creation of new urban spaces, real or imagined. Re-visioning Black Urbanism is a new research initiative being developed at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, University of London which explores new modes of inhabiting, imagining and making cities from progressive black and culturally diverse perspectives.

The film will be introduced by Paul Goodwin, research fellow in urbanism and director of the Black Urbanism Project at Goldsmiths and academic consultant for the Institute of International Visual Arts (InIVA)'s Creative Mapping Project. Joining him will be the writer and broadcaster Bonnie Greer. She is a member of the board of the British Museum, the Serpentine Gallery, First Light Movies, and a Fellow of the Royal Society For Arts. In 2008 she will launch the first phase of Tribe, a new cultural space in Paris near the Centre Pompidou. In 2006, Goodwin and Greer organised an international conference on the challenges of diversity in France and Britain for the Franco-British Council of which they are both members.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
Free, no bookings taken
Over 18s only

    

This event is related to the Global Cities exhibition