The Nine Muses
United Kingdom, 2010.
92 mins. English
Q + A session with filmmaker John Akomfrah
Divided into nine musical chapters and mixing a vast array of archival material, THE NINE MUSES reforges The Odyssey as a reflection upon journeys, migration, memory and the power of elegy. John Akomfrah, co-founder of the Black Audio Film Collective, expands his exhibition Mnemosyne beyond the gallery in this visual-poem telling the story of Britain's post-war migrations. Using spectacular landscape imagery from Alaska with rare archive footage from the BBC, Akomfrah sets the writings of Dante, Beckett and Basho to an equally wide-ranging musical selection with readings from Richard Burton, John Barrymore and Michael Sheen. THE NINE MUSES unfolds as an utterly absorbing meditation on a journey towards self-discovery, a sorrow song on a quest for knowledge.
and identity.
Divided into nine musical chapters and mixing a vast array of archival material, THE NINE MUSES reforges The Odyssey as a reflection upon journeys, migration, memory and the power of elegy. John Akomfrah, co-founder of the Black Audio Film Collective, expands his exhibition Mnemosyne beyond the gallery in this visual-poem telling the story of Britain's post-war migrations. Using spectacular landscape imagery from Alaska with rare archive footage from the BBC, Akomfrah sets the writings of Dante, Beckett and Basho to an equally wide-ranging musical selection with readings from Richard Burton, John Barrymore and Michael Sheen. THE NINE MUSES unfolds as an utterly absorbing meditation on a journey towards self-discovery, a sorrow song on a quest for knowledge.
and identity.
Screenings
Arts Picturehouse
Friday 23 September, 6:00PM
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