Encounter at Kwacha House - Halifax

Encounter at Kwacha House - Halifax

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This short film presents a lively discussion between black and white youths at the interracial club in Halifax, touching on racial discrimination in employment, housing, education and interpersonal relations.

Contributor Kass Banning writes, "Encounter at Kwacha House – Halifax is a cinéma vérité snapshot of predominantly young black people in lively debate with community activists about the pressing issues of the day, concerns that shadowed young black Haligonians in the mid-sixties, namely racist employment, education and housing practices.

"Viewed today, Encounter is not simply a fascinating, regionally specific social document of its time; rather CFC'S motivation for the project, the participants' equating segregationist Halifax with the deep South, and Encounter's various receptions – past and present – are variously informed by the subliminal weight of our television archive, specifically the iconography and associations of televised civil rights struggles of the 1960s.

"CFC'S claim that Encounter was a successful catalyst for change cannot be disputed. Following the screenings of Encounter officials were alerted to the potential for unrest in Halifax and short-term opportunities for black youth did emerge forthwith. The fact that these efforts for change could also be attributed to the moral panic that the presence of the Black Panthers engendered in the fall of 1968 is, perhaps unsurprisingly, not on the CFC record."

Thomas Waugh, Ezra Winton, Michael Baker
De la sélection : Challenge for Change

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Encounter at Kwacha House - Halifax, Rex Tasker, offert par l'Office national du film du Canada

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  • réalisateur
    Rex Tasker
  • producteur
    Barrie Howells
    John Kemeny

  • TNLewis

    My father is featured and this offers a different, yet very familiar portrait of him as a young man. It also gives great perspective on the challenges he faced. Thank you for posting the film.

    TNLewis, 30 Déc 2015
  • Orpheonegra

    I agree this i typical of the Era, either the girls didn't speak (due to men's shouting and sentencing) or they were edited out of the film... In all cases, this shows why Afrofeminism had to rise, in order for us Black women to rise too!

    Orpheonegra, 7 Jul 2014
  • sixam

    We don't hear any of the black girls speak. Who did the editing?

    sixam, 15 Jan 2014
  • Bigfan

    This film short is pretty amazing - I would love to know where these folks are now... I truly love the guy at the end..."I care..."

    Bigfan, 14 Déc 2010
  • GiftshopArtie

    I'd like to comment but I couldn't finish watching...

    GiftshopArtie, 22 Jan 2010

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