John Akomfrah

Review - John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses' Is A Deeply Moving Experience

It’s been a long time since a film has moved me in quite the way that John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses did. It wasn’t that happy, tingly, feel-good feeling you tend to get with some films that has you smiling as you leave the cinema and which you soon forget (the feeling and the actual ...

John Akomfrah Talks Condensing 8,000 Hours Of Footage To 95 Minutes For 'Stuart Hall Project'

Sundance 2013 Review: John Akomfrah’s 'The Stuart Hall Project '

It would be unfair to call The Stuart Hall Project a simple documentary. The film, directed by John Akomfrah, is a visual and sonic excursion into the life and philosophies of the Jamaican-born intellectual, a finely crafted collage of memory, distilling hundreds of hours of archival footage of...

Sundance 2013 Preview: John Akomfrah's 'Stuart Hall Project'

John Akomfrah's Seminal 1996 Work On Afrofuturism ('The Last Angel Of History') Now On Commercial DVD

8 New Images From John Akomfrah's 'Peripeteia' + New 'Hauntologies' Exhibition In London

One of several S&A 2012 Toronto Interntational Film Festival highlights... British/Ghanaian filmmaker John Akomfrah's lats work, titled Peripeteia, which stars Monique Cunningham, and Trevor Mathison (who appeared in Akomfrah's previous work, Th...

First Look At John Akomfrah's 'Unfinished Conversation' + Review + Plans For Commercial Release

Critic's Notebook: What Filmmaker John Akomfrah's Work Tells Us About the Present By Way of the Past

True to his post-colonial interests, Akomfrah's work blurs and re-imagines the distinction between video art and cinema. While his conceptual rigor and semantic preoccupations suit the immersive spaces of video art/installation, his lyricism calls for the scope of the big screen.

TIFF Film Roundup - Briefs On John Akomfrah's 'Peripiteia' & Haitian Drama 'Twa Timoun'

It’s been just over a week since my return to Barbados from Toronto and I’m slowly recovering from a whirlwind three weeks that culminated in TIFF 2012.