[trailer]
HD video, bespoke sound system | 05:57 | british library, 2024
a roundhouse production


designed as an "interruption" to the British Library's wider exhibition on Black British music, this film is a drop that breaks barriers. Interrupted disrupts the interruptor. it is elation, fury, celebration and drive all at once. it is the hustle of constant renaissance.
in its original exhibited form the film stands between two spaces in the British Library and in the history of Black British music: 'on the record' and 'cyberspace'. the soundtrack plays through twin bespoke sound systems, designed by Friendly Pressure.
writer-directors -- hannah oliver & yvonne shelling
producer -- antonia luxem
executive producer -- derek richards
artistic advisor -- gary stewart
sound mix & design -- weyland mckenzie-witter
editor -- hannah oliver
colour grade -- nuval jolly ,  jason wallis - electric theatre
colour producer -- alex carswell​​​​​​​
sounds by -- teshay makeda , anayo ,   yv shells
dancer -- chloe filani
art director -- kami jogee
director of photography -- yvonne shelling
gaffer -- conrad russell
spark -- edmund bishop
bts -- stefon grant
participants --
michelle jogee                          varaidzo                      paulette long
chi-chi nwanoku                      lucy mcluckie             dennis bovell
noel oliver                                dympna oliver            steamdown
sam dennis                               moses boyd                 glyn aikens
linton kwesi-johnson              israel sotonwa             jiggs prodigy
miss dynamite                         akala                            renagade boys
hannah young aka piripa        lateef saka                   JME
footage --
arts council england c/o the BFI national archive
archival footage supplied by internet archive (archive.org)
immigration: 70th anniversary of the arrival of the windrush generation supplied by ITN via getty images
west indian immigrants arrive at waterloo station supplied by BBC motion gallery editorial 
audrey damier                         risky roadz                 adrian boot / urbanimage.tv
metronomes steel orchestra.   four five six                black music research unit
shivas howard-brown              khevyn 'BE'                 legs eleven sound system
derek richards                          troy 'a plus' miller      lewis, manchester ringway
kes eccleston                            keep hush                   soyklo
special thanks -- gary stewart , dr mykaell riley