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SUMMARY:ACT Lecture | John Akomfrah & Lina Gopaul: Considering the Stuart
  Hall Project
DESCRIPTION:Spring 2013 Lecture series\nExperiments in Thinking\, Action 
 & Form\nCINEMATIC MIGRATIONS II\n\nJohn Akomfrah\, OBE\nDirector\, filmma
 ker\, and writer\, Smoking Dogs Films\, UK\nLina Gopaul\nProducer and wri
 ter\, Smoking Dogs Films\, UK\nConsidering the Stuart Hall Project\n\nThe
  Stuart Hall Project (2012) is a film on the cultural theorist and sociol
 ogist Stuart Hall. Directed by John Akomfrah and produced by Lina Gopaul\
 , the film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2013. Thro
 ugh archival footage\, television excerpts\, family photographs\, and mus
 ic\, Akomfrah???s portrayal of Hall's life\, work\, and cultural impact e
 xplores issues of identity\, cultural acceptance\, immigration\, and assi
 milation. In their lecture\, the filmmakers will reflect on the film???s 
 cultural and technological context.\n\nJohn Akomfrah\, OBE\, and Lina Gop
 aul co-founded the seminal film and video group Black Audio Film Collecti
 ve and the more recent production company Smoking Dogs Films. Their colla
 borative and long-standing partnership has won them over thirty-five inte
 rnational awards and over one hundred official film festival selections. 
 Exploring the fertile grounds of film\, television\, and new technologies
 \, their work challenges and redefines traditional modes of documentary f
 ilmmaking.\n\nThis lecture is presented in collaboration with the MIT Vis
 iting Artists Program.\n\nContact Information: \nLaura Anca Chichisan\, 6
 17-253-5229\, act@mit.edu\, http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectur
 es-series/2013-spring/\n\nSponsor(s): School of Architecture and Planning
 \, MIT Program in Art\, Culture and Technology\, Department of Architectu
 re\, Arts at MIT\n\n
LOCATION:E15-001 ACT Cube\, Wiesner Building
URL:http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=14993615
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