The Nine Muses
Ghana 2012, 96 mins
Director: John Akomfrah
Director: John Akomfrah
Divided into nine musical chapters and mixing a vast array of archival material, THE NINE MUSES reforges The Odyssey as a reflection upon journeys, migration, memory and the power of elegy.
John Akomfrah, co-founder of the Black Audio Film Collective, expands his exhibition Mnemosyne beyond the gallery in this visual-poem telling the story of Britain's post-war migrations.
Using spectacular landscape imagery from Alaska with rare archive footage from the BBC, Akomfrah sets the writings of Dante, Beckett and Basho to an equally wide-ranging musical selection with readings from Richard Burton, John Barrymore and Michael Sheen.
THE NINE MUSES unfolds as an utterly absorbing meditation on a journey towards self-discovery, a 'sorrow song' on a quest for knowledge and identity.
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