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
21 November 2013 20:30, KASKcinema, Gent. A KASK lecture in collaboration with Courtisane. Black Audio Film Collective, Testament 1988, 16mm on video, color, English spoken, 80′ “I think necrophilia is at the heart of black filmmaking. I mean necrophilia not in a literal sense, but in a post-modern sense in which people are invoking figures, … Continue reading Figures of Dissent: John Akomfrah
Series of talks, in collaboration with Argos, Auguste Orts and Courtisane, with support of VGC. In the context of the research project “Figures of Dissent (Cinema of Politics, Politics of Cinema)” (KASK / HoGent) How can the relation between cinema and politics be thought today? Between a cinema of politics and a politics of cinema, … Continue reading DISSENT ! documentation
11 May 2012, Khiasma, Paris. In the context of ‘Occupation. Festival of Living Literatures and Words’ and the exhibition ‘Les Nouveaux Mondes et les Anciens: Un envoutement de l’histoire’. Black Audio Film Collective / John Akomfrah Handsworth Songs GB, 1986, 16mm, color & b/w, English spoken, French subtitles, 60′ BAFC was a British collective of … Continue reading Occupation: Handsworth Songs
One of the most remarkable films I’ve seen the last couple of years must be Handsworth Songs by Black Audio Film Collective (directed by John Akomfrah), which takes as a starting point the “riots” that haunted the Birmingham district of Handsworth and South London in 1985, as a way to open up secret histories of … Continue reading The Handsworth Songs letters