A Call to Arms
ilms like , my own (1989), and the works of Derek Jarman all come out of a period of independent film in Britain. This was a moment when you had a number of artists and collectives who were working in an artisanal manner, making films out of certain ritual struggles—and in a sense coming of age through the birth of Channel 4 television, a public service broadcaster that started in 1982. Channel 4 enabled there to be a groundswell of cultural production, constituted by the many attempts and
