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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,
This Bible study of Judges 4 and 5 explores what we can learn from Deborah about calling and the power of the Holy Spirit. Deborah is an extraordinary woman in the Bible that will forever be someone we can look up to and see as an example for women today.
Akomfrah uses montage techniques to connect apparently disconnected things, events, times and space into a kaleidoscopic image that mirrors Hall’s theorisation of the black diasporic subject.
John Akomfrah (b. 1957 Accra, Ghana) is an artist, filmmaker, theorist, and curator. He is the cofounder of the Black Audio Film Collective, an influential association that examined black British identity through film and media. Akomfrah has been included in group exhibitions around the world, and has had
Ghanaian born John Akomfrah, CBE RA, is a London-based artist, screenwriter, film director, curator, and critical thinker whose lyric works grapple with such defining issues of our times as climate change, migration, racism, and the legacies of colonialism and slavery.
Dec 9, 2020 · Text Finn Blythe, This article is part of HERO Dailies – Essential culture, curated daily and also part of Wednesday Art Idol. HERO DAILIES: Essential culture, curated daily. WEDNESDAY ART IDOL: Careers of artists with unparalleled vision. See our archive of Wednesday Art Idol →.
John Akomfrah and Edward George picked up on critic John Corbett’s observation of the uncanny similarity between Sun Ra, Lee Scratch Perry, and George Clinton, Black musicians respectively in jazz, reggae, and funk: all of whom, while unaware of each other’s practices, deployed the captivat -
