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Release Date:
April 20, 2024
Original Title:
Listening All Night To The Rain
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Smoking Dog Films
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
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.
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Art Direction:
Trevor Mathison
Angus Blackstock
Kenny Ferguson
Cinematography:
Dewald Aukema
Colorist:
Alex Seery
Director:
John Akomfrah
Editor:
Sally Mumby Croft
Sergio Vega Borrego
Lara Garcia-Reyne
Post Producer:
Rich Simpson
Producer:
Lina Gopaul
David Lawson
Ashitey Akomfrah
Sound:
Robin Fellows
Udit Duseja
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