The Stuart Hall Project / British Film Institute presents in association with BBC Archive, Arts Council England, Creation Rebel Films, Smoking Dogs Films, the Open University, Time/Image ; a Smoking Dogs Films production ; written and directed by John Akomfrah ; producer, Lina Gopaul ; producer, David Lawson.
Publisher:
BFI,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Stuart Hall. "A John Akomfrah film"--Container and disc label. Disc running time printed differently on disc label "98 minutes." "This program is a version of one made for The Open University social science course"--Spoken during opening credits. Videodisc release of the 2013 motion picture. "The multiple lives of a multicultural subject made entirely from his film, television, radio and photographic archives; made also with musical fragments from his lifelong listening to Miles Davis"--Opening credits. "BFI film forever"--Container.
Summary:
"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"--BFI website. "From the award winning documentarian John Akomfrah comes The Stuart Hall Project, a ground-breaking film that pioneers a new archival and sonic approach to forgotten histories, forgotten ideas and the untold stories of the politics of change. Visionary director John Akomfrah weaves between the musical archaeology of Miles Davis, the political narratives of the new post-war Left and the life and works of key architect, the cultural theorist Stuart Hall-one of the New Left's most prominent and influential intellectuals. Akomfrah carefully constructs archival sequences of rare forgotten and long since seen historical material together with Hall's extensive broadcasts and personal archives, taking the audience on a kaleidoscopic journey through the ideas and personal story of Stuart Hall. Imagined through a Miles Davis and an original sonic sound track, Akomfrah creates a vivid cartography of the twentieth century's defining political moments making a powerful portrait of Hall." -- Back of container.
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