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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Film festival hosts screening in tribute to Stuart Hall

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As a trib­ute to the life of the cel­e­brat­ed Ja­maican in­tel­lec­tu­al and cul­tur­al the­o­rist Stu­art Hall, who died on Feb­ru­ary 10 at the age of 82, the T&T Film Fes­ti­val (TTFF) is host­ing a screen­ing of The Stu­art Hall Project, tonight at the fes­ti­val's of­fices at 199 Bel­mont Cir­cu­lar Road, Bel­mont.

Hall, who was born and raised in Ja­maica, went to the Unit­ed King­dom in 1950 to study at Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. He set­tled in Britain, where he helped evolve the con­cept of mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism, and be­came a key ar­chi­tect of the aca­d­e­m­ic dis­ci­pline known as cul­tur­al stud­ies, said a re­lease from the TTFF.

A ma­jor fig­ure of the New Left move­ment, Hall was a found­ing ed­i­tor of the sem­i­nal New Left Re­view.

His the­o­ries on the con­cepts of iden­ti­ty and hy­brid­i­ty, class and colo­nial­ism, pol­i­tics, gen­der, cul­ture and art have in­flu­enced the think­ing of many peo­ple over the decades; for a time he was ar­guably the great­est pub­lic in­tel­lec­tu­al in Britain.

Di­rect­ed by ac­claimed doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er John Akom­frah, The Stu­art Hall Project is a por­trait com­posed en­tire­ly of pho­to­graph­ic and film footage from Hall's archive, from his child­hood in Ja­maica to his time as a TV and ra­dio pre­sen­ter with the BBC and be­yond.

The film–which is 100 min­utes long–is com­ple­ment­ed by a sub­lime score com­prised of the mu­sic of Miles Davis, who, as Hall once put it, "put his fin­ger on my soul" when Hall was a young man.

As a num­ber of crit­ics have not­ed, the film serves not on­ly as an il­lu­mi­nat­ing bi­og­ra­phy of Hall, but al­so as a po­tent "al­ter­nate" his­to­ry of the world in the lat­ter half of the 20th cen­tu­ry.

The Stu­art Hall Project had its pre­miere in 2013 at the Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val. It went on to screen at many film fes­ti­vals, in­clud­ing the 2013 T&T Film Fes­ti­val, to great ac­claim.

The film was al­so re­leased in cin­e­mas in the UK.

The screen­ing of The Stu­art Hall Project be­gins at 7.30 pm, and doors open at 6.45 pm.

Pa­trons are ad­vised to ar­rive at the screen­ing ear­ly as space is lim­it­ed. Re­fresh­ments will be avail­able.

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