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Small Axe

Seventh Row Editors / November 8, 2024

Ep. 145: From the Archives: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe

To cover Steve McQueen’s ambitious Small Axe series, we have assembled one of our most ambitious episodes of the year. We discuss each film (or episode?) of McQueen’s series.

A grid of four images from the Small Axe series, exhibiting the hair and makeup work of JoJo Williams. The images features the text, 'Interview'.

Orla Smith / January 18, 2021

Makeup and hair designer JoJo Williams shares stories from the set of Small Axe

JoJo Williams, who led the makeup and hair department on the entire Small Axe series, shares stories about working with Steve McQueen and fitting hundreds of wigs.

Seventh Row Editors / December 30, 2020

Ep. 72: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe

To cover Steve McQueen’s ambitious Small Axe series, we have assembled one of our most ambitious episodes of the year. We discuss each film (or episode?) of McQueen’s series.

A still of Kingsley from the Small Axe film Education. The text on the image says: Review.

Orla Smith / December 6, 2020

Education Review: Small Axe ends on a note of bittersweet hope

Education, the final film in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, explores systemic racism in the British schooling system and the West Indian women who organised to combat it.

An image collage of stills from groups of characters in Mangrove and Ultraviolence.

Orla Smith / October 21, 2020

Mangrove and Ultraviolence are two angles on UK police brutality

Films about police brutality in the UK are sorely lacking, but this year’s London Film Festival gave us two: Ken Fero’s mishandled Ultraviolence and Steve McQueen’s brilliant Mangrove.

A man and a woman smile together in Lovers Rock. The word 'Review' is on the image.

Orla Smith / October 20, 2020

LFF Review: Safe spaces and gendered violence in Lovers Rock

Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock, the second installment in his Small Axe film anthology, celebrates the highs of a house party. It also explores the gendered violence that can brew in these spaces.

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