Pressure

“Blood, Fire and Interiority in Horace Ové’s Pressure”

Pressure, the first feature film by a Black British director, was the center of praise and critique at the time of its release in London. This article studies the activists and Caribbean migrants portrayed in the 1974 feature film.

It is published in Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art.

Image: Film still from Pressure, directed by Horace Ové. British Film Institute.