Who Killed Colin Roach? (1983)
Overview
Who Killed Colin Roach? is Isaac Julien's first film, which reflects upon the death of Colin Roach, a 23 year old who was shot at the entrance of a police station in East London, in 1982. Even though the police claimed Roach had commited suicide, evidence showed otherwise. Isaac Julien says that this work is essentially a response to the riots, an answer to certain fixed ways of looking at black cultures, but also at those ways we might feel about ourselves.
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| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 2.05 |
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Isaac Julien
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Isaac Julien
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