JEONJU Intl. Film Festival

12nd

Stranger than Cinema

The Nine Muses

Director_ John Akomfrah

UK 2010 92min HD Color feature

Review

The film is based on Greek myth and is about UK immigration history. Images of past and present are combined with intellectual text and diverse music to create a new effect. The history of UK society that the director shows is stiflingly intellectual but restricted, but at the same time poetic.

CREDIT

DirectorJohn Akomfrah
ScreenplayJohn Akomfrah
ProducerLina Gopaul

Cinematography David Lawson
EditorDewald Aukema
SoundMikka Leskinen

CastRobin Fellows

DIRECTOR

John AKOMFRAH

He is a member of the Black Audio Film Collective, which was organized in 1982 to produce experimental and engagement movies. His special interest has been the area of racial discrimination. Since The mid-1990s, he has been involved in both analogue and digital film work. He received the John Grearson Award for his documentary debut, Handsworth Songs. Film Riot won the Grand-Prix of N-Vision at the first JIFF.

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