As the BFI dedicates a new season to his ‘radical vision’, friends, family, colleagues and contemporaries remember the director and explain the revolutionary and liberating force of his films
‘The police were constantly at our door, looking for Horace,” says the actor Indra Ové reflecting on her film-maker father, who died last month. “They claimed to have gotten wind that Horace was probably inciting violence somewhere. With his camera!” In fact, Ové was most often simply documenting the hostility that black people endured in 1960s Britain and the decades that followed; recording the rising tensions and after effects on the black body and psyche that crystallised in his best known feature, Pressure, in 1975.
When I contacted them, family members, friends and colleagues, whether in Britain, Nigeria or the US, were all keen to convey the brilliance of Horace Ové, now the subject of a major retrospective at the BFI in London.
‘The police were constantly at our door, looking for Horace,” says the actor Indra Ové reflecting on her film-maker father, who died last month. “They claimed to have gotten wind that Horace was probably inciting violence somewhere. With his camera!” In fact, Ové was most often simply documenting the hostility that black people endured in 1960s Britain and the decades that followed; recording the rising tensions and after effects on the black body and psyche that crystallised in his best known feature, Pressure, in 1975.
When I contacted them, family members, friends and colleagues, whether in Britain, Nigeria or the US, were all keen to convey the brilliance of Horace Ové, now the subject of a major retrospective at the BFI in London.
- 10/24/2023
- by Colin Grant
- The Guardian - Film News
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