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... Through a close reading of the film Testament (1988), about a woman who makes a journey of return to Ghana after years of political exile, this chapter investigates montage strategies that are distinctive to the poetic handling of archival materials in the Black Audio Film Collective oeuvre...

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... The third chapter examines the shape of fugitive time in two films by the Black Audio Film Collective: Handsworth Songs (1986) and Twilight City (1989). Established in London in 1982 by a group of students of West African and West Indian descent, Black Audio’s early essay films sought...

... This chapter is Okwui Enwezor’s essay in the catalog of the exhibition John Akomfrah: Signs of Empire , shown at the New Museum, New York, from June to September 2018. It discussed the Ghanaian/British artist’s early experience as a member of the Black Audio Film Collective in London between...

... This chapter is an ambitious exercise in enfolding-unfolding aesthetics. The Last Angel of History , a 1995 movie by John Akomfrah and Black Audio Film Collective and founding text of Afrofuturism, models manners of unfolding lost African-diasporic histories. There is a manner of unfolding...

...Journeying Through a close reading of the film Testament (1988), about a woman who makes a journey of return to Ghana after years of political exile, this chapter investigates montage strategies that are distinctive to the poetic handling of archival materials in the Black Audio Film...