Montagem e apropriação no cinema de John Akomfrah

Authors

  • Rodrigo Sombra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29146/ecopos.v24i3.27766

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Keywords: Black cinema; essay film; archive; African diaspora

Abstract

Abstract: This paper examines the dynamics of the reuse of archival materials in John Akomfrah's cinema. I argue that editing takes on an essayistic vein in his work, embodying a “cinema of ideas”, while admitting a relative autonomy of the appropriated images. This second movement is based on the artist's recognition that the indexical root of the filmic image would be in part irreducible to the chains of discourse. This proposition is supported by an analysis of the film Handsworth Songs (1986), in which Akomfrah brings into dialogue the racial uprisings then underway in Thatcherite England and the aspirations of West Indian emigrants in post-war Britain.

Keywords: Black cinema; essay film; archive; African diaspora

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Published

2021-12-20

How to Cite

Sombra, R. (2021). Montagem e apropriação no cinema de John Akomfrah. Revista Eco-Pós, 24(3), 124–156. https://doi.org/10.29146/ecopos.v24i3.27766