Who Killed Colin Roach? at Museum Brandhorst
October 6, 2023
Lessons of the Hour, 1983 (Who Killed Colin Roach?) will join other works in the collection of the Museum Brandhorst as part of the larger exhibition, This Is Me, This Is You.
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.
Lessons of the Hour, 1983 (Who Killed Colin Roach?) opens at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich on October 17
