John Akomfrah: Film Screenings + Talk

The Africa Institute (Sharjah, UAE), in collaboration with the Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah, UAE) and the Royal College of Art (London, UK) are organizing a screening program focusing on three films by the acclaimed Ghanaian-British filmmaker John Akomfrah. The screenings will conclude with a webinar featuring the filmmaker.

The program will include three of Akomfrah’s films; Handsworth Songs (1986), Martin Luther King and the March on Washington (2013) and The Stuart Hall Project (2013). The films will be made available for audiences as free livestream for four days via The Africa Institute website starting Saturday, July 18, 2020. The webinar, which is scheduled for Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at 7 PM (GST), will host director John Akomfrah in a conversation moderated by Hoor Al-Qasimi, President, Sharjah Art Foundation, with Adrian Lahoud, Dean of the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art, London, UK, and Gilane Tawadros, Chief Executive, DACS.

This program of screening is driven by the educational mission of the collaborating institutions as a contribution to the understanding, through film and art, of the recent protest movement across the globe against anti-black racism. It also explores the African and Black intellectual traditions through the contributions of specific figures to critical theory and the humanities, such as the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, and the Black British intellectual Stuart Hall, as in the case of John Akomfrah’s selected films.
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