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Kwame Nkrumah’s Legacy in Film

by Adam Katzman March 17, 2021March 17, 2021

From documentaries to ethnographic approaches to a prestige Netflix show, a look at different depictions of the Ghanaian revolutionary.

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Stream Afrofuturist Gems, Including John Akomfrah’s The Last Angel of History

by Dan Schindel February 1, 2021February 1, 2021

Here are some important titles you should seek out in the Criterion Channel’s Afrofuturism series.

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Experimental Films Contemplate the Future From an “Endangered Present”

by Dessane Lopez Cassell July 15, 2020November 5, 2020

After Civilization, a free, month-long film series presented by Maysles Documentary Center, explores broader questions of what if and what now.

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An Essential Watchlist of Groundbreaking Black Documentaries

by Rooney Elmi June 24, 2020May 16, 2022

These films illustrate both the undeniable threat of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy and the incomparable strength of Blackness.  

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Honoring the Art of the Archival Film

by Andrew Northrop December 18, 2019

At the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Re-Releasing History program presented a dazzling array of movies built from found footage and more.

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Making Room to Take In the Depth of John Akomfrah’s “Vertigo Sea”

by Seph Rodney August 31, 2018September 15, 2018

The three-channel film is a story of how humans are ultimately reductionists in our relationship to the ecology — in a world that feels like it is too much for us, we aim to cut it down to a digestible size.

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Six Shows in Sharjah Challenge Curators to Look Beyond the Usual Suspects

by Nicola Gray August 15, 2018September 2, 2018

Part I of two reports from the 2018 Spring Exhibitions and the March Meeting in Sharjah.

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John Akomfrah Discusses Channeling J.M.W. Turner and Disasters at Sea

by Emily Wilson June 8, 2018June 8, 2018

“The Deluge,” a monumental Turner painting showing a Biblical flood, is currently paired with Akomfrah’s “Vertigo Sea” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Radical Art from the Past Decade, from Tahrir Square to Recife

by Murat Cem Mengüç July 20, 2017July 25, 2017

In MoMA’s Unfinished Conversations, artists around the world engage with today’s political struggles while exposing their personal, cultural, and historical roots.

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The Violence of the British Slave Trade, as Told Through the Sea

by Monica Uszerowicz April 12, 2017

John Akomfrah’s Tropikos, showing at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, navigates the United Kingdom’s role in the slave trade and the inherently formidable power of the sea.

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Exquisite Films that Make Reality Unearthly

by Seph Rodney August 2, 2016August 3, 2016

The best word I can use to describe the feeling conveyed by John Akomfrah’s films at Lisson Gallery is fey.

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The Fantastical Paradoxes of Afrofuturist Film

by Jeremy Polacek April 10, 2015April 15, 2015

Imaginative, aesthetic, historically fixated, and cosmically liberated, afrofuturism could be subject to low budgets, racism, sexism, and indifference, and still count itself a master of radiant ideas.

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