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MoMA Presents: John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses

Oct 6–12, 2011

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The Nine Muses. 2011. Great Britain. Directed by John Akomfrah

The Nine Muses is the most recent work by John Akomfrah (b. Accra, Ghana, 1957), a leading British filmmaker, moving-image installation artist, and cofounder in the early 1980s of the Black Audio Film Collective. With glorious shots of Alaskan shores and the beautiful desolation of barely traveled snowy roads; a soundtrack rich in readings, from Homer to Dante to T. S. Eliot; and the music of Arvo Pärt and India’s Gundecha Brothers, Akomfrah has created a haunting journey through myth and landscape, a self-described “Proustian attempt” to suggest the idea of migration.

Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film.

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