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   Nov 9, 2023 · The artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah has vivid memories of the coup that ousted Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966, when he was eight. His pan-Africanist father was an Nkrumah loyalist who “died...

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   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". [2]

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4. 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.

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   Apr 16, 2024 · John Akomfrah is known for his dramatic, richly layered multiscreen video installations that use archive material and newly shot footage to challenge the conventions of film-making, and explore...

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   Jan 4, 2024 · Artist interview interview. John Akomfrah: the film-maker exposing the colonial adventures of microorganisms and more. The Venice Biennale-bound artist discusses his latest video work exploring...

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   John Akomfrah CBE is a Ghana-born pioneering filmmaker and artist based in London. He is internationally known for his collaboratively produced films and multi-screen video installations exploring memory, temporality, colonialism and post-colonialism, and experiences of global diaspora.

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   Who is John Akomfrah?

   • The artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah has vivid memories of the coup that ousted Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966, when he was eight. His pan-Africanist father was an Nkrumah loyalist who “died in the upheaval”, he says. “My whole life changed — the innocence went.”

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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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   What is Akomfrah's work about?

   • 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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   What was Akomfrah's first film?

   • Their first film, Handsworth Songs (1986) explored the events surrounding the 1985 riots in Birmingham and London through a combination of archive footage, still photos and newsreel. The film won several international prizes and established a multi-layered visual style that has become a recognisable motif of Akomfrah’s practice.

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   Where are Akomfrah's works found?

   • [ 13 ] Akomfrah's works are included in the permanent collections of museums worldwide such as the Smithsonian 's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, [ 14 ] the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, among many others.

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   Who is Akomfrah's friend Stuart Hall?

   • An “immortal” presence is his friend, the late cultural theorist Stuart Hall about whom Akomfrah made the installation “The Unfinished Conversation” (2012) — on show in Frankfurt — and “The Stuart Hall Project” (2013), a film of archival footage set to a Miles Davis soundtrack.

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   John Akomfrah is a widely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, postcolonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explores the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.