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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'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 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.
Akomfrah opens Five Murmurations with details of The Conjuror, Hieronymus Bosch’s examination of the human capacity for deception. It is the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna’s canvas The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, however, that speaks to the pathos and banality of lives lost. For Akomfrah, the distorted perspective of
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...
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.
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 explores the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.
