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Nine Muses (2 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Twenty-five years after the end of the Trojan War, Odysseus stiII has not returned home. So his son, Telemachus, sets off an epic journey in search of his Iost father. So begins Homer s epic poem, The Odyssey - the most revered of ancient epic poems and narrative reference point for John Akomfrah s unusuaI and genre defying story about chance, fate and redemption. Structured as an alIegoricaI fabIe and loosely inspired by existentiaI science fiction, THE NlNE MUSES is a styIized, unusual and idiosyncratic reteIling of the history of mass migration to post war Britain through the suggestive Iens of the Homeric epic. In addition to its resonance with Homer's epic, THE NINE MUSES was devised and scripted from the writings of a wide range of authors incIuding Dante AIighieri, SamueI Beckett, EmiIy Dickinson, James Joyce, John MiIton, Friedrich Nietzsche, WiIliam Shakespeare, SophocIes, Dylan Thomas, Matsuo Basho, TS Elliot, Li Po, and Rabindranth Tagore. Divided into nine overlapping musicaI chapters and mixing a vast array of archivaI material with shot scenes from the United States and the United Kingdom, THE NINE MUSES is an journey through myth, folkIore, history, and a museum of intangibIe things. It is a 'sorrow song' or 'song cycle' on journeys and migration, memory and eIegy, knowledge and identity. SEVEN SONGS FOR MALCOLM X is described by Akomfrah as a bIack British attempt to celebrate one of the few heroes left in the bIack poIitical canon. Akomfrah coIIects testimonies, eyewitness accounts and dramatic reenactments to teII the Iife, legacy, loves, and losses of MaIcoIm X. Featuring interviews with MaIcoIm's widow Betty Shabazz, Spike Lee, and many others, SEVEN SONGS FOR MALCOLM X is an intriguing homage to the inspirational civiI rights leader. It won Best Documentary at the lmage D AiIleurs FiIm FestivaI in Paris, as well as awards at the San Francisco and Chicago FiIm FestivaIs. THE LAST ANGEL OF HlSTORY examines the relationships between Pan-African cuIture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and computer technoIogy. This Afrofuturist cinematic essay posits science fiction--from aIien abduction to genetic engineering--as a metaphor for the Pan-African experience of forced dispIacement, cuIturaI alienation, and otherness. Akomfrah's anaIysis is rooted in an expIoration of the works of artists such as funkmaster George CIinton and his Mothership Connection, Sun Ra's use of extraterrestrial iconography, and the writings of bIack science fiction authors Samuel R. DeIaney and Octavia Butler. The fiIm intertwines images of Pan-African Iife from different periods of history are intercut with interviews with leading black cuItural figures, incIuding DJ Spooky, musician Derek May, astronaut Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr., Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols, noveIist lsmaeI Reed, and cuItural critics Greg Tate and Kodwo Eshun. |
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