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The Last Angel of History. 1995 Single-channel color video, sound, 45 minutes. John Akomfrah. British, born 1957 Loan courtesy of Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery, London. The Last Angel of History follows the quest of a man known as the Data Thief, who seeks the keys to the future.
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".
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.
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.
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...
- Maya Jaggi
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
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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.
