| Title: | Burning An Illusion | |
| Director 1: | Menelik Shabazz | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1981 | |
| length: | 101 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film | |
| Screenwriter: | Menelik Shabbazz | |
| Cinematographer: | Roy Cornwall | |
| Editor: | Judy Seymour | |
| Producer: | Vivien Pottersman | |
| Production company: | BFI | |
| Cast: | Cassie McFarlane, Victor Romero, Beverley Martin | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 33 | |
| Synopsis: | Menelik Shabazz's feature film traces the emancipation of Pat, a young secretary, as a woman and a black person. When her boyfriend is sent to prison, Pat begins to investigate black politics and consciousness. Episodically blending didactic and naturalistic elements, the film employs footage shot in and around the black community of Notting Hill and includes a sequence from the annual carnival. | |
| Keyword 1: | emancipation | |
| Keyword 2: | police | |
| Keyword 3: | violence | |
| Keyword 4: | London | |
| Keyword 5: | Notting Hill | |
| Keyword 6: | black | |
| Keyword 7: | carnival | |
| Keyword 8: | gender | |
| Keyword 9: | women | |
| Text Reference 1: | Time and Judgement | |
| Text Reference 2: | Black Independent Film in Britain: Historical Overview | |
| Text Reference 3: | Burning an Illusion | |
| Text Reference 4: | Fear of the Dark: 'Race', Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema | |
| Text Reference 5: | Representation and Blacks in British Cinema | |
| Text Reference 6: | Taking a Different Angle: Perspectives on the Depiction of Women in Black British Independent Film of the 1980s | |
| Text Reference 7: | Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s | |
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