The Ghosts of Songs

2007

Boek; 240 p ill

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Tent. Liverpool, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, 02-02-2007, 01-04-2007 ; Bristol, Arnolfini, 27-04-2007, 22-06-2007 ; Londen, Institute of International Visual Arts/ Whitechape Art Gallery, 28-05-2008, 03-08-2008. - Groepstentoonstelling toont een overzicht van het filmisch werk van het Black Audio Film Collective in de periode 1982-1998. - The Ghosts of Songs is the first book-length exploration of the work of the Black Audio Film Collective. The collective comprised John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul, Reece Auguiste, Avril Johnson, Trevor Mathison, Edward George and David Lawson, and for sixteen years their films addressed the social, political and racial crises of Thatcher's Britain and beyond. However, it would be limiting their achievement to see them either as merely challenging the hegemonic forms of mass media, or conversely as polemicist film activists. In films such as Expeditions, Handsworth Songs, Seven Songs for Malcolm X and Twilight City the collective explored and developed a black film aesthetic. The essays in this volume argue that they inaugurated themselves as an artist-group, laying claim to the right to reconfigure the space of cinema around the Afrodiasporic subject, reconceptualizing lighting, film stock, developing and printing, and inventing the forms that black cinema might take

Located in: FILM EN KUNST

ISBN: 978-1-84631-014-0

VUBIS: 2:97468