Five Murmurations

Five Murmurations

Three-screen black and white video installation exploring how individuals and communities have been coping with the pandemic, the radical...

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The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile. This video profiles...

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Goldie: When Saturn Returns

Goldie: When Saturn Returns

Goldie, the godfather of drum and bass takes us on a roller coaster ride through his frenetic life. A journey that takes us from Wolver Hampton to...

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A Touch of the Tar Brush

A Touch of the Tar Brush

Black filmmaker John Akomfrah believes that, for too long, being English has meant being white. In an attempt to show Englishness from the point of...

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Purple

Purple

Purple is a six-channel video installation addressing climate change, human communities and the wilderness. At a time when greenhouse gas emissions...

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Precarity

Precarity

A three-channel video installation, working with the themes of risk, hybridity and the unfathomable to explore the city of New Orleans through the...

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Becoming Wind

Becoming Wind

In his new work on five screens, "Becoming Wind", Akomfrah creates an allegorical representation of the Garden of Eden and its disappearance. In...

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The Airport

The Airport

The Airport, a three-screen film installation conceived as a meditation on Greek history and its recent financial crisis, set around the landscapes...

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Memory Room 451

Memory Room 451

The subject matter of Memory Room 451 is the cultural and historical significance of 20th-century hairstyles – the Afro, the conk, dreadlocks – in...

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Hauntologies

Hauntologies

Digitopia

Digitopia

Drama about a man who lives in an analogue world but seeks to fulfil his desires in a digital world.

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Triptych

Triptych

Triptych (2020) is a homage to the the radical, political album, ‘We Insist!’ (1960) by the jazz musician Max Roach – the ideas of which prefigured...

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Transfigured Night

Transfigured Night

Transfigured Night draws its inspiration from two sources of the same name – Verklärte Nacht – the German poem by Richard Dehmel from 1896 and the...

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Vertigo Sea

Vertigo Sea

Vertigo Sea is a three-screen film installation that explores what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls 'the sublime seas'. Fusing archival material, readings...

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The Unfinished Conversation

The Unfinished Conversation

Through juxtaposing and layering archival footage with text, music and photographs, The Unfinished Conversation crosses the memory landscape of...

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Tropikos

Tropikos

Tropikos transforms the landscape of the Tamar Valley in the South West of England into a sixteenth-century port of exploration on the African...

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Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz

Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz

Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz is a portrait of one musician’s lifetime achievement. In a career spanning 60 years as pianist and...

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The Call of Mist

The Call of Mist

A vivid meditation on cloning, death, memory and media set on an remote Scottish island. A short film on the millennium’s end commissioned by BBC TV.

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Acts Of Faith

Acts Of Faith

Auto Da Fé is a diptych that looks at migration through the lens of religious persecution. Presented as a poetic period drama, the film presents a...

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Numen

Numen

A fictional journey of post-apocalyptic survival.

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