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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.
This was the stark, emotional climate in which the work of John Akomfrah and the Black Audio Film Collective came into being: a climate of political and economic decline in which policies were increasingly dictated by a force - ful blend of conservative values such as nation, family, and authority, and
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...
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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...
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.
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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John Akomfrah and Edward George picked up on critic John Corbett’s observation of the uncanny similarity between Sun Ra, Lee Scratch Perry, and George Clinton, Black musicians respectively in jazz, reggae, and funk: all of whom, while unaware of each other’s practices, deployed the captivat -
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