Frontline States initiated and managed projects and programmes facilitating change and development, principally in the arts sector…
- strategic development
- research planning
- network management
- international collaboration
- publishing services
…and continues to advocate for the arts and creativity as a way to change the world for the better, which is why it is proud to include “Working on the Frontline”, a song celebrating frontline workers in the NHS. It is taken from the fundraising album Song Club, released on 23 October 2020.
‘Working on the Frontline’ was written and recorded by Neill MacColl and Kate St John, and is sung by Jessie Buckley & The Leonards. The video was made by Kitty MacColl and the words are spoken by NHS nurse Hannah Grace Deller.
Films on this website, in addition to spoken poems, music and video clips, include:
Documentaries
Art from the Frontline (Southern African culture, Scotland, 1990)
Celebrate Moe! The Bread and Roses Project (Moe Foner, USA, 2002)
The Celebration (dance, Mozambique, 1989)
The Deeper Image (art and dance, Mozambique, 1988)
Detroit’s Rivera (Diego Rivera, USA and Puerto Rico, 2017)
Everyone A Special Kind Of Artist (Ken Sprague/Melinda Perham, England, 1986)
Ferro em Brasa: Ricardo Rangel (photography, Mozambique, 2006)
Fringe Benefits (alternative theatre, England, 1980)
Hinterland: A Documentary (South African liberation, England, no date)
The Ken Campbell Roadshow (alternative theatre, England, 1971)
Lady Chatterley’s trial (censorship, England, 1991)
La Vie est a Nous (Popular Front, France, 1936)
Marx on the Wall (mural, England, 1991)
Mbira Music: Spirit of the People (music, Zimbabwe, 1990)
Michelene Wandor (interview, England, 2010)
A portrait of the artist Ken Sprague, 1927-2004 (England, 1970)
Poster Man (Ken Sprague, England, 1977)
The Real Battle of Cable Street (mural, England, 2010)
The Secret Safari (South African liberation, Australia, 2001)
Ways of Seeing (John Berger, England, 1972)
Fictional
Accidental Death of an Anarchist (England, 1981)
Consequences (Zimbabwe, 1988)
L’Idée (The Idea) (France, 1932)
Les Aventures de Till l’Espiègle (The Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel) (France, 1956)
Легенда о Тиле (The Legend of Till) (Soviet Union, 1976)
The Marriage of Mariamu (Tanzania, 1985)
The Moss Witch (England, 2010s)
Nelisita (Angola, 1982)
The Overcoat (Russia, 2010s)