
Riot Night
In August 2011, riots spread across English cities after the police shooting of Mark Duggan in London, and this short film comes from a group of amateur filmmakers who found themselves in the middle of it. Rather than a produced, narrated account, it is raw footage shot on the street as it happened: fires, looted shops, crowds moving through neighborhoods thrown into chaos. The people behind the camera are not reporters or historians but residents caught in the moment, and that vantage point gives the film its value, showing the disorder at ground level rather than through news-desk framing. There is no larger analysis of the riots' causes or aftermath here, just the footage itself, shot by people who were there and wanted a record of what they saw. It runs short and stays close to the street.