A screening of Charles Burnett's 1983 film, an intimate portrait of life in 1980s South Central LA, as part of The Book of Darkness & Light Film Festival at HOME.
HOME is screening My Brother's Wedding on Tuesday 20 October at 6:15pm, as part of The Book of Darkness & Light Film Festival. It's a 1983 film by Charles Burnett, a pioneering Black independent filmmaker who made this as his second feature, following his 1978 debut Killer of Sheep.
The story centres on Pierce Mundy, a proudly working-class young man caught between the demands of his family and the wider world. It's an intimate portrait of life in 1980s South Central LA, and it deals with dilemmas that feel largely universal. Burnett's work has always sat in that independent tradition — small-scale, focused on people and place, and more interested in the quiet rhythms of daily life than in big, loud plot twists. This one is no different; it's a character study that takes its time with the people it follows.
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If you're not familiar with Burnett, Killer of Sheep was his first feature, and My Brother's Wedding came five years later. Both are rooted in the Black American experience, and seeing them in the context of a festival like The Book of Darkness & Light gives you a bit more of the wider picture they fit into. The screening is at HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester M15 4FN, and tickets are £7.95 to £9.95.
