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John Akomfrah (born in Ghana in 1957) was a found-ing member of the Black Audio Film Collective (active 1982–98), which produced a wide range of films, videos, installations, photographs, essays, statements, film programs, seminars, and talks. His latest feature film, The Nine Muses (2010), which screened at MoMA, New York, October
tween documentary and allegory, between letting go and moving on, Akomfrah’s films weave a sensible tissue from histories of fractured horizons and absent ruins that re fuses to act as an urgent response to the “state of emergency.”
John Akomfrah's The Unfinished Conversation (2012) constitutes a recent, fascinating negotiation of identity and difference. The film takes the life of culture theorist Stuart Hall as a point of departure, conducting a cinematic translation of Hall's own empirical and theoretical journey through identity and difference.
John Akomfrah. The Last Angel of History follows the quest of a man known as the Data Thief, who seeks the keys to the future. He turns to his computer as a new source of access to knowledge in the 1990s.
John Akomfrah works primarily in film and video, exploring place, memory, and history through the lens of postcolonialism and the black diaspora. His work takes many formats, ranging from feature-length documentaries to immersive, multichannel video installations, while employing both original and archival footage.
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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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".
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