Who Killed Colin Roach?

• 1983
• •
• 35m

• Documentary

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.

Director

Isaac Julien

Release date

Jan 1, 1983

Original language

English

Origin

United States