Ken Fero: Injustice

Screening

6 October 2016
6–8pm

  • Event Cost:
    Free

In conjunction with Luke Willis Thompson’s exhibition Misadventure, we present a screening of Ken Fero’s film Injustice (2001), which The Guardian called ‘one of the most powerful and despairing films ever to have been made’ in the UK. Threatened by police censorship and banned on television in the UK, Injustice is one of the UK’s most politically controversial films. This seven-year project shares the stories of British deaths in custody, and the battle for justice by the families left behind. In the past thirty years there have been over 1,000 deaths in custody in the UK, and only one officer conviction. Crafted from hundreds of hours of footage, Injustice exposes the institutional racism of black deaths in custody. It investigates the corrupt acts of police brutality and human rights fallacies committed, while journeying with the victims’ families as they seek retribution for the unjust loss of life. The screening will be introduced by Jodie Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at SAE QANTM Creative Media Institute, Meanjin/Brisbane. 98 minutes.

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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