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Where did that interest in montage come from? John Akomfrah: Prosaically, one would have to say it started from an interest in Russian cinema and Russian aesthetics, especially the writings of Sergei Eisenstein and Lev Kuleshov. The realization that I understood what it meant in cinema suddenly did something extraordinary,
Akomfrah contends with the violence of the sea, juxtaposing sublime footage from nature with archival and media imagery of the whaling industry, the slave trade, and refugee travel.
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Mar 3, 2023 · For more than four decades, John Akomfrah has sought to tell myriad tales of migration and belonging. Akomfrah left Ghana for the UK as a young child after the country’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was overthrown in the 1966 coup, which put his activist mother’s life in danger.
Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA (born 4 May 1957 [1]) is a Ghanaian-born British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".
Fusing archival material, readings from classical sources and newly shot footage, Akomfrah’s piece focuses on the disorder and cruelty of the whaling industry and juxtaposes it with scenes of many generations of migrants making epic crossings of the ocean for a better life.
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Akomfrah opens Five Murmurations with details of The Conjuror, Hieronymus Bosch’s examination of the human capacity for deception. It is the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna’s canvas The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, however, that speaks to the pathos and banality of lives lost. For Akomfrah, the distorted perspective of
