• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Counter-Media, Migration, Poetry: Interview with John Akomfrah
  • Contributor: Power, Nina
  • imprint: University of California Press, 2011
  • Published in: Film Quarterly
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1525/fq.2011.65.2.59
  • ISSN: 0015-1386; 1533-8630
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  • Description: <p>An interview with British avant-garde filmmaker John Akomfrah, focusing on his 1986 feature (made as part of Black Audio Film Collective) about riots in the U.K.,<italic>Handsworth Songs</italic>, and his latest work,<italic>The Nine Muses</italic>, a blend of archive footage, mysterious landscape shots, and poetic voiceover.</p>