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This year, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn and National Museum of African Art will host major exhibitions of his work. Akomfrah is a widely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works investigate ...
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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,...
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Nov 9, 2018 · Artist John Akomfrah reflects on what Remembrance means to him.See his work Mimesis: African Soldier at IWM London https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/mimesis-afri...
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Jan 4, 2024 · The British-Ghanaian artist John Akomfrah has been pushing the boundaries of film for more than four decades. Having started out with experimental documentaries such as Handsworth Songs (1986 ...
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.
Oct 23, 2024 · John Akomfrah was born in Accra, Ghana, in 1957. A pioneering filmmaker, Akomfrah creates multichannel video installations that critically examine the legacy of colonialism, the Black diaspora, and environmental degradation.
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John Akomfrah is a hugely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, post-colonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explore the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.
