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Film screening

Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave

18:00–19:00

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Re-enactment of police in riot gear clashing with striking miners, shot in a field by red-brick terraced houses.

Join us for this screening of Jeremy Deller’s 2001 film, The Battle of Orgreave, which re-enacts the violent confrontation between picketers and the police during the miners’ strikes of 1984.

The dispute between the National Union of Mineworkers and the UK government lasted for over a year, and was the most bitterly fought since the general strike of 1926. On 18 June 1984, the Orgreave coking plant was the site of one of the most violent confrontations, which culminated in a police cavalry charge through the village.

The Battle of Orgreave, staged seventeen years later, was a spectacular re-enactment of what happened that day. Orchestrated by Howard Giles, a historical re-enactment expert, it involved more than 800 participants, including former miners and policemen, reliving the events that they themselves took part in.

Filmed by Mike Figgis for Artangel and Channel 4, The Battle of Orgreave first aired on 20 October 2002. The film intercuts dramatic photographs from the clashes in 1984 with footage of the re-enactment in 2001 and powerful testimonies to tease out the complexities of this bitter struggle. It is part of The Artangel Collection, an initiative to bring outstanding film and video works, commissioned and produced by Artangel, to galleries and museums across the UK.

Main image: Production photograph from Jeremy Deller’s 2001 film The Battle of Orgreave. Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh.
Video, 62 mins, directed by Mike Figgis.

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Accessibility

We want to make it as easy as possible for all to attend, so please get in touch if you have any access needs that you would like to discuss before the symposium.

Accessibility

Step-free entrance

We have an accessible entrance via lift (doors 100cm wide) on Cookridge Street, bringing you onto the ground floor of the building.

Internal lift

There is an internal passenger lift (doors 72cm wide) to all floors of the building.

Induction loops

There are induction loops at the welcome desk on the ground floor, library reception and in the seminar room.

There is a portable induction loop available for visitors to use in the galleries (please ask at the welcome desk).

Toilets

Outside the seminar room on the basement level we have three gender-neutral superloos (self-contained cubicles with a toilet and sink).

Additionally, we have one gender-neutral, accessible superloo, and one superloo with baby changing facilities.

Changing Places toilet

The closest Changing Places toilet is located in Leeds City Museum (approximately 350m away from us over a mostly flat route).

 

Guide dogs

Guide dogs, hearing dogs and other badged assistance dogs are welcome in our galleries and at this event.

The nearest green space is Park Square.

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