Robots of Brixton

Directed by Kibwe Tavares · Starring Yung Swizz'Agg, Kibwe Tavares · 2011

In a near-future Brixton, a robot underclass built to do humanity's dirty work lives on the margins until tensions with the authorities boil over in scenes that echo the 1981 riots.

Stunning CG robots meet archive footage of the 1981 Brixton riots in a sharp, prescient vision of urban unrest.

Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London's new robot workforce - robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of

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