2016 / 256 pages / 21 x 14,8 cm Published by AraMer This manuscript came about in the framework of the research project Figures of Dissent (KASK / University College Ghent School of Arts, 2012-2016). Research financed by the Arts Research Fund of the University College Ghent. How can the relation between cinema and politics … Continue reading Figures of Dissent // book
In the context of the Courtisane Festival 2016 (23-27 March). “I believe people accept there is no real alternative.” Thus spoke the Iron Lady. After the freezing Winter of Discontent came the long-awaited ‘winter of common sense’. An era is drawing to a close, she claimed, meaning that the time for foolish dreams and misguided … Continue reading In Between Times
Talk with John Akomfrah. November 20 2013, Brussels. In the context of the DISSENT ! series. Moderated by Stoffel Debuysere. In November 2013, John Akomfrah was in Brussels to present Handsworth Songs (1986). This was the first film he made as a member of the Black Audio Film Collective, a group of artists, critics and … Continue reading Between the fire and the voice
“Inscribed in the militant and nationalist pretensions of the term ‘third cinema’ is a certainty which simply cannot be spoken anymore. A certainty of place, location and subjectivity. What now characterizes the ‘truths’ of cinema, politics and theory is uncertainty.“ – John Akomfrah, Black Audio Film Collective (1988) Uncertainty. Radical uncertainty. In economic theory the … Continue reading Politics of Uncertainty
20 November 2013 20:30, Cinematek Brussels. In collaboration with le P’tit Ciné. Talk with John Akomfrah proceeded by a screening of Handsworth Songs. Black Audio Film Collective, Handsworth Songs 1986, 16mm, color & b/w, English spoken, French subtitles, 60′ “People assume that there are certain transcendental duties that Black filmmaking has to perform. They assume … Continue reading DISSENT ! John Akomfrah