Sub-Culture present: Sub-Cinema @ Dada

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Sub-Culture presents Sub-Cinema, a bi-weekly screening of the weird and wonderful! Taking place every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, Sub-Cinema will bring you cult classics, B-Movie madness, independent cinema, music documentaries and just plain good films. Doors open at 7pm and screenings will commence at 9pm sharp, with music provided before and after by Sub-Culture selectors Drunk Monk and Deville. All films will be shown with Chinese sub-titles, or in Chinese language, whenever possible.

Tuesday 10th November - Babylon (1980)

Sound system ‘toaster’ Blue and his Ital Lion crew are looking forward to a soundclash competition with rival outfit Jah Shaka, but as the event approaches, Blue’s personal life begins to unravel. Fired from his job, he begins to suspect his girlfriend is cheating on him and then one night he is brutally beaten by plain-clothes policemen. Finally, when their lock-up garage is broken into and their sound-system destroyed, he cannot take anymore. Increasingly angered and alienated by what he percieves to be society’s rejection of his race and culture, Blue is compelled to respond by fighting fire with fire.

One of the most highly regarded cult British films of the 1980s, Franco Rosso’s Babylon is a raw and incendiary film employing an effective mix of music and social commentary to recount the everyday experiences of a small group of working class black youths living in South London in the early 1980s. With music composed and arranged by Dennis Bovell and Aswad, and appearances by soundsystems such as Jah Shaka, Mighty Observer and Rootsman Hi-Hi as Ital Lion, Babylon is as much a musical treat as it is a must see piece of cinema!

English language with English sub-titles