ICA | FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2019: What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? Intro + Q&A @icalondon | Uploaded April 2019 | Updated October 2024, 49 seconds ago.
What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?, Dir. Roberto Minervini, Italy / USA / France 2019, 106 min., English
A blistering meditation on the state of race in America, Roberto Minervini’s What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? chronicles the lives of black communities in the Southern states, where the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina remains acutely felt as police brutality claims lives with intolerable regularity.
Following several threads, including the New Black Panther Party’s preparations for a large-scale protest against police violence, the film documents the lives of those who have been marginalised by the media and alienated by failing institutions. What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? captures the pressures of everyday existence for many black Americans, while finding moments of beauty, joy and radical togetherness.
This screening was followed by a Q&A with director Roberto Minervini, Judy Hill, one of the film’s protagonists and Nat Turner member of The New Black Panther Party, hosted by FRAMES of REPRESENTATION Festival Curator Nico Marzano.
#FoR19 is presented in partnership with CHASE (Consortium for the Arts and Humanities South-East England).
What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?, Dir. Roberto Minervini, Italy / USA / France 2019, 106 min., English
A blistering meditation on the state of race in America, Roberto Minervini’s What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? chronicles the lives of black communities in the Southern states, where the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina remains acutely felt as police brutality claims lives with intolerable regularity.
Following several threads, including the New Black Panther Party’s preparations for a large-scale protest against police violence, the film documents the lives of those who have been marginalised by the media and alienated by failing institutions. What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? captures the pressures of everyday existence for many black Americans, while finding moments of beauty, joy and radical togetherness.
This screening was followed by a Q&A with director Roberto Minervini, Judy Hill, one of the film’s protagonists and Nat Turner member of The New Black Panther Party, hosted by FRAMES of REPRESENTATION Festival Curator Nico Marzano.
#FoR19 is presented in partnership with CHASE (Consortium for the Arts and Humanities South-East England).
