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Steve McQueen on his series Small Axe and racism in the Metropolitan Police
For the past 12 years, the Oscar-winning British director Steve McQueen has been working towards addressing what he calls the βweird absenceβ of black people from British television drama and stories of the black British experience.
As a child of the Windrush generation, McQueen has made an anthology of films for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ and Amazon under the banner of βSmall Axeβ β about the West Indian community in London from the 1960s-1980s. The series explores the extraordinary and every day: injustices, riots, police brutality and racism but also the cultural and family traditions and the food and music of the time.
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