Highly acclaimed at this year’s Sundance and Sheffield Documentary festivals, the new film from award-winning documentarian John Akomfrah (The Nine Muses) is a sensitive, emotionally charged portrait of cultural theorist Stuart Hall.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/bfi-film-releases/stuart-hall-project
A founding figure of contemporary cultural studies – and one of the most inspiring voices of the post-war Left – Stuart Hall’s resounding and ongoing influence on British intellectual life commenced soon after he emigrated from Jamaica in 1951. Combining extensive archival imagery – television excerpts, home movies, family photos – with specially filmed material and a personally mixed Miles Davis soundtrack, Akomfrah’s filmmaking approach matches the agility of Hall’s intellect, its intimate play with memory, identity and scholarly impulse traversing the changing historical landscape of the second half of the 20th century.
Venues
6-19 September
ICA
6-12 September
Curzon Renoir
13-26 September
BFI Southbank (Studio)
16-22 September
Cambridge Arts Picturehouse
6-12 September
Lighthouse Dublin
16 September
Lexi Cinema Kilburn
13-20 September
Hackney Picturehouse
13-20 September
Ritzy Brixton
20-26 September
Greenwich Picturehouse
21-22 September
Komedia Brighton
26 September
Barbican
26 September
Duke of Yorks Brighton
29-30 September
Chapter Cardiff
4 October
Showroom Sheffield
4-7 October
MAC Birmingham
26-31 October
Watershed Bristol
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