John Akomfrah

John Akomfrah (born 1957) is a Ghanaian British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator. Quotes We still live in an age in which the language of protest is largely demonized and pathologized as not having a raison d'être nothing comes through in activism without form I wouldn’t go so far as to say the cinema made me smoke, but it gave me the gestures through which smoking made sense When you work with the archive, these are the conversations and thoughts often sparked. You’re endlessly in flight, in search of forms that might allow or license a dialogue. It’s a kind of counter-custodial position It’s funny, the powerful never get over anything We have to confront pain, or try to find things to say about it I can’t give over my life to silence in the name of an avoidance of pain John Akomfrah Interviewed by Devika Girish n.d Empathy is something that I’m keen to hang onto An Interview with John Akomfrah July 2018 The fact that I was black was a kind of accident that had to be overcome "Let’s turn this logic on its head...": In conversation with John Akomfrah 2 January 2022 Black cultural movements always have to deal with this question of memory because it is the only raw material, the only stock, that they can turn to Memory is the only raw material we can turn to”: the Black Audio Film Collective on creating a Black cinema 23 July 2020 External links Category:Artists from Ghana Category:Film directors from Ghana Category:1957 births Category:Living people