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The Ghosts of Songs is the first book-length exploration of the work of the Black Audio Film Collective. The collective, founded in 1982 and dissolved in 1998, comprised John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul, Reece Auguiste, Avril Johnson, Trevor Mathison, Edward George and David Lawson, and for sixteen years their films addressed the social, political and racial crises of Thatcher's Britain and beyond. However, it would be limiting their achievement to see them either as merely challenging the hegemonic forms of mass media, or conversely as polemicist film activists. In films such as Expeditions, Handsworth Songs, Seven Songs for Malcolm X and Twilight City the collective explored and developed a black film aesthetic. The essays in this volume, contributed by Jean Fisher, Kodwo Eshun, Kobena Mercer and Okwui Enwezor, argue that they inaugurated themselves as an artist-group, laying claim to the right to reconfigure the space of cinema around the Afrodiasporic subject, reconceptualizing lighting, film stock, developing and printing, and inventing the forms that black cinema might take.
Contents
Gill HendersonForewordKodwo Eshun and Anjalika SagarPrefaceJean FisherIn Living Memory... Archive and Testimony in the Films of the Black Audio Film CollectiveKobena MercerPost-colonial TrauerspielKodwo EshunDrawing the Forms of Things UnknownOkwui EnwzorCoalition Building: Black Audio Film Collective and Transnational Post-colonialismJohn Akomfrah in Conversation with Kodwo EshunAn Absence of RuinsIntroduction to Artists' WritingsJohn AkomfrahBlack Independent Film-making: A Statement by the Black Audio Film CollectiveLinda GopaulWhich Way Forward?Edward GeorgeNew Directions in TrainingEdward GeorgeIntroduction to Reflections of the Black ExperienceReece AuguisteBlack Cinema, Poetics and New World AestheticsReece AuguisteHandsworth Songs: Some Background NotesReece AuguisteTwilight: Auker's WorldAvril JohnsonIdentityReece Auguiste and Black Audio Film CollectiveBlack Independents and Third Cinema: The British ContextJohn Akomfrah interviewed by Linda GopaulColour Symbolism in Ghanaian SocietyBlack Audio Film CollectiveExpeditions: On Race and NationJohn AkomfrahOn Writing Who Needs A HeartJohn AkomfrahNotations of Collective Inventions for Who Needs A HeartJohn AkomfrahOn the BorderlineEdward George(ghost the signal)Exhibition HistorySelected FilmographySelected BibliographyContributors' BiographiesList of WordsCreditsIndex
