VIDEO: Pressure (1975) - Britain's first feature length black film > from A BOMBASTIC ELEMENT


Horace Ové

BFI Films in partnership with Daily Motion placed some of its vast catalog of films online a while back. Among them are the films of Horace Ové (who broke into film as a (slave) extra on the set of Joseph Mackiewicz' Cleopatra), such as Baldwin's Nigger (a must see - Black Looks blog broke some of it down recently - here) and, above, Britian's first black feature, Pressure (1975). BFI calls it: " less about the tribulations of surviving racism in the UK than the struggle between first- and second-generation Caribbean immigrants" and a "breakthrough film."