Film

Testament

D: John Akomfrah, Ghana/Great Britain 1988, 76 min, Engl. subtitles

Sun, Oct 12, 2008
6.30 pm
Admission: 5 €, concessions 3 €
Testament, © Promo

Historical archive footage, dream sequences and political reflections are interwoven to create a complex experiment that is intensified by the ritualistic music: twenty years after Ghana’s socialist experiment under Kwameh Nkrumah, a former activist returns to her home country as a reporter. She is supposed to do a report on Werner Herzog’s Cobra Verde, part of which was filmed in a former slave fort in Ghana.

Discussion with John Akomfrah