John Akomfrah
“People assume that there are certain transcendental duties that Black filmmaking has to perform. They assume that and because of that Black filmmaking has to work with the understanding that it’s in a state of emergence. And because it is in a state of emergence its means always have to be guerilla means, war means, signposts of urgency. When that begins to inhibit questions of reflection - doubt, skepticism, intimacy and so on - then the categorical imperative does exactly what it is supposed to do - it imprisons.”
- John Akomfrah
De screening wordt gevolgd door een gesprek met John Akomfrah.
In de context van DISSENT!, een initiatief van Argos, Auguste Orts en Courtisane, met de steun VG & VGC / in het kader van het onderzoeksproject "Figures of Dissent" (KASK/HoGent)
In samenwerking met le P’tit Ciné & Brussels Arts Platform (met de steun van VUB Doctoral School of Human Sciences).
Op 21 november presenteert John Akomfrah zijn film Testament in KASKcinema, Gent.