![]() ![]() ![]() Julien would later describe the death as a lightbulb moment for him, occurring during a pivotal time in the transformation of race relations, as London reckoned with its own broken system. The death sparked mass demonstrations across London as the Black community took to the streets to protest the police. Although Julien didn’t know Roach, he was just a year older than the dead man and the two lived only a few blocks apart. Roach had died while in police custody: an alleged suicide. In 1982 twenty-year-old film student Isaac Julien was walking through the East End of London when he encountered a crowd of men, women and children protesting the death of a young Black man named Colin Roach. How Julien’s transgressive reworkings of history and time itself have expanded our potential to deal with the complexities of the present and paved the way for generations of artists to come ![]()
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