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John Akomfrah discusses his creative film practice including his reinscription of a Black presence in the British landscape and the relationship of memory and mnemosyne.
John Akomfrah OBE is an eminent film-maker and writer and, in 1982, was co- founder of the pioneering Black Audio Film Collective, a group that was central to the burgeoning black film culture...
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.
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 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 -
As Akomfrah articulates in the important interview with Kobena Mercer, for him “the very act of rejecting the category ‘artist’ was a way of opening things out”— an act he considers “a strategic necessity.” What is at stake for the authors represented in this Close-Up is how
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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".
