Nineties: Young Cinema Rebels

A two-month season looking at the radical and rebellious cinema of the nineties, released between 1989 and 1999.

The season was designed to spotlight those voices that were just breaking through during that decade. This season is about those films and careers that could only have been made in that pivotal decade. Films released between 1989 – a year when Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies, and videotape took the Cannes film festival by storm and Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing set American cinema on fire – and 1999, when The Blair Witch Project blurred the lines between marketing, documentary, fiction and horror and The Matrix created a whole new cinematic language for action.

I wrote a piece for BFI.org.uk to contextualise the season and The Face covered it.

Read more about the season here

The programme ran in July-August 2019 in BFI Southbank.