The Ghosts of Songs
The Art of the Black Audio Film Collective
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
256 pages
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100 color plates, 100 halftones
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11.4 x 8.3
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© 2007
Founded during the racially volatile days of the early Thatcher government and active for sixteen years, the Black Audio Film Collective produced some of the most challenging and stylish art of the first generation of black British filmmakers. In The Ghosts of Songs, acclaimed artists, filmmakers, and scholars examine the legacy of the collective’s innovative and wide-ranging work in film, video, and installations as well as their provocative essays and manifestos. Packed with rare photographs and previously unseen film stills, The Ghosts of Songs is a thorough assessment of the group’s entire career.
Contents
Foreword--Gill Henderson
Preface--Kodwo Eshun & Anjalika Sagar
In Living Memory...Archive and Testimony in the Films of the Black Audio Film
Collective--Jean Fisher
Post-colonial Trauerspiel--Kobena Mercer
Drawing the Forms of Things Unknown--Kodwo Eshun
Coalition Building: Black Audio Film Collective and Transnational Post-
colonialism--Okwui Enwezor
An Absence of Ruins--John Akomfrah in Conversation with Kodwo Eshun
Introduction to Artists' Writings--Kodwo Eshun & Anjalika Sagar
Black Independent Film-making: A Statement by the Black Audio Film
Collective--John Akomfrah
Which Way Forward?--Lina Gopaul
New Directions in Training--Edward George
Introduction to Reflections of the Black Experience--Edward George
Black Cinema, Poetics and New World Aesthetics--Reece Auguiste
Handsworth Songs: Some Background Notes--Reece Auguiste
Twilight: Auker's World--Reece Auguiste
Identity--Avril Johnson
Black Independents and Third Cinema: The British Context--Reece Auguiste and
Black Audio Film Collective
Colour Symbolism in Ghanaian Society--John Akomfrah interviewed by Lina
Gopaul
Expeditions: On Race and Nation--Black Audio Film Collective
On Writing Who Needs A Heart--John Akomfrah
Notations of Collective Inventions for Who Needs A Heart--John Akomfrah
(ghost the signal)--Edward George
Exhibition History
Selected Filmography
Selected Bibliography
Contributors' Biographies
List of Works
Credits
Index
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