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     John Akomfrah in Conversation

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     'The Stuart Hall Project' with John Akomfrah

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     John Akomfrah: Future History

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2. www.youtube.com › watchJohn Akomfrah in "London" - Season 10 - "Art in the ... - YouTube

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   Watch now on PBS and the PBS Video app: https://www.pbs.org/video/london-8x7jrh/ Since the early 1980s, the groundbreaking filmmaker John Akomfrah has created enormous, multi-channel video ...

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3. www.youtube.com › watchTalking to our Time: John Akomfrah - YouTube

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   John Akomfrah RA is having a moment. Earlier this year he was knighted in recognition of his contribution to the arts, and soon after it was announced that he will represent Great Britain at the...

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4. www.youtube.com › watchJohn Akomfrah in Conversation - YouTube

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   A conversation with celebrated artist/film-maker John Akomfrah. The release of The Unfinished Conversation marks 30 years since John Akomfrah established his...

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5. aperture.org › editorial › how-john-akomfrahs-videosHow John Akomfrah’s Videos Tell a Story of Migration and ...

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   Nov 6, 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.

6. www.theartnewspaper.com › 2024/01/04 › john-akomfrahJohn Akomfrah: the film-maker exposing the colonial ...

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   Jan 4, 2024 · Having started out with experimental documentaries such as Handsworth Songs (1986)—which looks at the British race riots of the early 1980s—he has in more recent years developed a reputation for...

7. art21.org › s10 › john-akomfrah-in-london-segmentJohn Akomfrah in “London” (SEGMENT) - Art21

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   Sep 18, 2020 · Akomfrah weaves together original footage with archival material to create stirring, layered narratives that juxtapose personal and historical memory, past and present, and environmental and human crises.

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   Who is John Akomfrah?

   • Get your copy of The Year Ahead - your essential art world companion. The British-Ghanaian artist John Akomfrah has been pushing the boundaries of film for more than four decades.

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   What is Akomfrah doing now?

   • This follows on from his 2019 contribution to the inaugural Ghana pavilion in Venice. In the run-up to this year’s Biennale, Akomfrah has released a new work, Arcadia (2023), exhibited first at the Sharjah Biennial and now in an edited form at The Box in Plymouth, UK.

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   How did Akomfrah start his artistic career?

   • While visiting the Tate Britain, Akomfrah recounts his artistic beginnings, from his fascination with the British Romantic painters John Constable and J.M.W. Turner to his co-founding of the Black Audio Film Collective.

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   Will Akomfrah represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale 2024?

   • Akomfrah was knighted last year, and 2024 brings yet another major milestone as he prepares to represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale. This follows on from his 2019 contribution to the inaugural Ghana pavilion in Venice.

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   Is the world going to Hell in multiple handcarts raising Akomfrah's powers?

   • What visitors to his first overview show in Germany, at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, as well as his UK premiere of multiscreen film Arcadia (2023) at The Box, Plymouth, and the British Pavilion next year will discern is that the world going to hell in multiple handcarts is raising Akomfrah to the peak of his powers.

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   Akomfrah began this year with twin honours: a knighthood and selection as the UK’s representative artist at the next Venice Biennale.