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John Akomfrah, OBE (born 4 May 1957)〔 is an English artist, writer, film director, screenwriter and theorist whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".〔 A founder of the Black Audio Film Collective in 1982, he made his début as a director with ''Handsworth Songs'', which examined the fallout from the 1985 Handsworth riots. ''Handsworth Songs'' went on to win the Grierson Award for Best Documentary in 1987.〔(The Grierson Trust. )〕 ==Biography== Akomfrah was born in Accra, Ghana, to parents who were involved with anti-colonial activism. In an interview with Sukhdev Sandhu, Akomfrah said: "My dad was a member of the cabinet of Kwame Nkrumah's party.... We left Ghana because my mum's life was in danger after the coup of 1966, and my father died in part because of the struggle that led up to the coup."〔Sukhdev Sandhu, ("John Akomfrah: migration and memory" ),''The Guardian'', 20 January 2012.〕 Living in Britain since the age of four,〔Mark Hudson, ("The Unfinished Conversation by John Akomfrah: a beautiful paean to identity" ), ''The Telegraph'', 15 October 2012.〕 Akomfrah was educated at schools in West London and at Portsmouth Polytechnic, where he graduated in Sociology in 1982. He is best known as one of the founders of the Black Audio Film Collective, which was active between 1982 and 1998, and which was dedicated towards examining issues of Black British identity through film and media.〔 ''Handsworth Songs'', the first documentary produced by the collective, focused on racial tensions in Britain in the 1980s. In 1998, together with Lina Gopaul and David Lawson, his long-term producing partners, Akomfrah co-founded Smoking Dogs Films.〔(Smoking Dogs Films website. )〕 From 2001 to 2007 he served as a Governor of the British Film Institute.〔(British Film Institute Board of Governors. )〕 From 2004 to 2013 he served as a governor of the film organisation Film London.〔("Award-winning film director joins Film London" ), Film London, 9 August 2004.〕 Akomfrah has taught classes and courses at such academic institutions as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,〔("John Akomfrah and Lina Gopaul" ), Arts at MIT.〕 Brown University, New York University, Westminster University, Princeton University. A tri-campus three-day event entitled "Cinematic Translations: The Work of John Akomfrah" was held in November 2013 at the University of Toronto, where he was artist-in-residence.〔("Cinematic Translations: The Work of John Akomfrah - November 27-29" ), Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto, Scarborough.〕 A Harvard Film Archive critique of his work states: "Akomfrah has become a cinematic counterpart to such commentators of and contributors to the culture of the Black diaspora as Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Greg Tate and Henry Louis Gates. In doing so, he has continued to mine the audiovisual archive of the 20th century, recontextualizing these images not only by selecting and juxtaposing them but also through the addition of eloquent and allusive text."〔("John Akomfrah, A Poet in the Archives" ), Harvard Film Archive.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Akomfrah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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