The Unfinished Conversation (2013)

Directed by

John Akomfrah

Genre

documentary

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

45 min

How it feels

This film installation weaves together found footage, music, and text to explore the life and ideas of Stuart Hall. It reflects on how memory and identity are shaped and remembered.

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What happens

The Unfinished Conversation is a 2012 multi-layered three-screen installation directed by John Akomfrah, co-founder of the Black Audio Film Collective. Through his celebrated technique of juxtaposing and layering archive footage with text, music and photographs, Akomfrah crosses the memory landscape of Stuart Hall, Jamaican-born founder of British Cultural Studies, to reflect on the nature and complexities of memory and identity. The Unfinished Conversation was commissioned by Autograph ABP. It opened at Tate Britain, London, on 26 October 2013, following its premiere at Bluecoat during the 2012 Liverpool Biennial. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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