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wip:konsthall Söndag 14 dec John Akomfrah Om dokumentära filmstrategier i det egna arbetet och med Black Audio Film Collective. Föreläsning,15.00 |
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 Black Audio Film Collective: Seven Songs For Malcolm X,Director John Akomfrah, 1993 Filmmaker John Akomfrah will give a talk presenting earlier film projects from the Black Audio Film Collective and current solo projects. The Black Audio Film Collective was formed in Hackney, London in 1982 by John Akomfrah, Reece Auguiste, Edward George, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, David Lawson and Trevor Mathison. It was one among many such collectives founded in Britain in the early to mid 1980s. This period was characterised by the founding of new independent broadcasting stations, encouraging innovative work, but also by the increasingly free market ideology of Thatcherism. Political commitment and formal experimentation characterise the Collective’s work. Exploring the nature of belonging and intimacy, they combined a montage aesthetic with personal reflection to invent a new genre of moving images that challenged the traditions of British documentary and drama. In the 1980s the Collective produced acclaimed experimental documentaries such as "Handsworth Songs" (1986), a film essay about the riots in Birmingham and "Twilight City" (1989, see below). Representations of black history, diaspora, memory and political struggle are evident themes in all of the Collective’s work. The past, present and possible future of black popular and political culture in Britain has been at the core of the Collective’s engagement, as well as a desire to build an independent cine-culture through theoretical, critical, speculative and fictional writings. Unlike other artists working with moving images, the Collective operated within and between the cultural spaces of the international film festival, the art gallery and broadcast television. In 1998 the Collective dissolved, though its members - most notably John Akomfrah - continued to work individually. Black Audio Film Collectives film "Twilight City" will be screened at Cinemateket on 6 November 8 pm. |
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