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   ve and John Akomfrah responded to this challenge by reawakening the phantoms of history and infusing the act of mourning with the possibility of collective agency. Be tween documentary and allegory, between letting go and moving on, Akomfrah.

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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.

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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.

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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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   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.

6. issues.aperture.org › article › 20230303031John Akomfrah The Door Of Memory | Aperture | FALL 2023

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   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.

7. www.academia.edu › 36353330 › Beyond_the_Archive_The(PDF) Beyond the Archive: The Work of Remembrance in John ...

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   Download Free PDF. Beyond the Archive: The Work of Remembrance in John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses. Beyond the Archive: The Work of Remembrance in John Akomfrah’s ...