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Listening All Night to the Rain (2024)
Directed by John Akomfrah
Documentary
Listening All Night To The Rain continues John Akomfrah’s abiding interest in post-colonialism, ecology and the politics of aesthetics with a renewed focus on the sonic. Drawing its title from Chinese writer and artist Su Dongpo’s (1037 - 1101) poetry that meditates upon the transitory nature of life during a period of political exile, the exhibition is seen as a manifesto that encourages the act of listening as a form of activism. Conceived as a single landscape or artwork organised into song-like movements or ‘cantos’ that are inspired by American poet Ezra Pound’s (1885 - 1972) journey through history in The Cantos (1925), the exhibition brings together eight multimedia and sound installations.
Crew
- Director
- John Akomfrah
- Editor
- Sally Mumby Croft, Sergio Vega Borrego, Lara Garcia-Reyne
- Producer
- Lina Gopaul, David Lawson, Ashitey Akomfrah
Details
- Release date
- 2024-04-20
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Smoking Dog Films