Negative Entanglements; Failed Rehearsals
Dhanveer Singh Brar on Black Audio Film Collectives
Who Needs a Heart Sound looks. Music talks. Words dont always go there. A story is still being told.
An unpublished essay by Dhanveer Singh Brar produced on the occasion of a screening of Who Needs a Heart (Black Audio Film Collective, 1991) organised by Pavilion, Hyde Park Picture House and the School of History at the University of Leeds.
If Great Black Music subsumes speech in Who Needs A Heart, what effect does this mode of saying have on viewership and narration?
Dhanveer Singh Brar asks us to look at the gestural capacities of music to understand the films fragmented representation of Michael Abdul Malik and the surrounding Black Power movement in 1960s Britain.
All text by Dhanveer Singh Brar, Dhanveer Singh Brar, 2022
Printed by Footprint Workers Co-op, Leeds.