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Akomfrah is a widely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works investigate memory, post-colonialism, temporality, and aes ...more. John Akomfrah RA is having a moment. Earlier this year...
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- Hirshhorn
John Akomfrah talks about his practice as a filmmaker, how he navigates between the gallery and cinema, what compelled him to make his 2015 work Vertigo Sea,...
Oct 7, 2017 · The British artist John Akomfrah has for decades reflected in his work on race riots, colonialism and police violence. Now he's turned to one of mankind's toughest challenges: climate change.
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Feb 25, 2020 · Weaving a tapestry of moving images, John Akomfrah’s video essays address the questions of our time in an exhibition unlike any before at SAM.
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- Seattle Art Museum
Apr 17, 2024 · Take the haunting The Nine Muses, a gorgeously shot film installation about the history of mass migration from Africa and the Caribbean to post-war Britain. Combining archival material with newly shot film using actors, Akomfrah asks us to consider what is truth, who is behind the camera and what is their motivation.
Purple is a 62-minute immersive six-channel video installation created by the British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah in 2017. [1] It draws from hundreds of hours of archival footage and combines with newly shot film, spoken word, and original music to explore climate change and its effects on human communities, biodiversity and the wilderness. [2]
Sep 21, 2018 · The British artist John Akomfrah dug deep into film archives around the world to create an elegiac tribute to the millions of largely forgotten black men from Africa and the United States who fought and died in World War I.
