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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.
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
Jan 4, 2024 · The British-Ghanaian artist John Akomfrah has been pushing the boundaries of film for more than four decades. Having started out with experimental documentaries such as Handsworth Songs (1986...
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 -
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.
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John Akomfrah: Tropikos is organized by PAMM Associate Curator Diana Nawi with support provided by Knight Foundation. John Akomfrah (b. 1957 Accra, Ghana) is an artist, filmmaker, theorist, and curator. He is the cofounder of the Black Audio Film Collective, an influential association that examined black British identity through film and media.
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