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Directed by: John Akomfrah
Runtime: 1h 39min
Certificate: 12
Year: 2013
Last Screened:
Sat 31st Aug 2024
This absorbing documentary from director John Akomfrah (The Nine Muses, Handsworth Songs) presents an intimate and engaging portrait of Stuart Hall, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist, public intellectual and co-founder of the New Left Review.
Akomfrah sets extensive archive footage of Hall’s appearances on radio and television against a soundtrack by Hall’s favourite musician, Miles Davis. Moving chronologically through Miles Davis’s work, the music maps the passage of time in a life lived through the twentieth century’s defining political moments.
The result is an evocative exploration of memory, race and identity, and a discourse on the wider social and political events of the second half of the twentieth century.
