The New Statesman and BFI celebrate the 2009 Trades Union Congress with an exclusive film screening at Tate Liverpool on Wednesday 16 September 2009 at 6.15pm of Mike Figgis’s 2001 film The Battle of Orgreave. The film will be followed by a panel discussion hosted by Jonathan Derbyshire, culture editor of the New Statesman.
Figgis’s film follows the re-enactment, conceived by the artist Jeremy Deller, of one of the most violent confrontations between pickets and police during the 1984-85 miners’ strike in the streets and fields of Orgreave, South Yorkshire. Admission is free, so if you’re in Liverpool tomorrow evening (the 16th), do come along. In the meantime, read Paul Routledge’s wonderful piece for the NS about This Working Life: King Coal, the BFI’s season of films made by the National Coal Board’s film unit.