
THE STUART HALL PROJECT
A stirring documentary tribute to the cultural theorist Stuart Hall...'
- Dave Calhoun, Time Out ****
'Akomfrah finds a new and quietly moving significance in Hall's own life story'
- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian ****
'A fascinating visual tapestry of archive material' -Tom Dawson, Total Film ****
'It’s a lot of material, fluidly edited by Nse Asuquo into a sustained narrative...' - Guy Lodge, Variety
Selected Films
NSE ASUQUO
FILM EDITOR

THE STUART HALL PROJECT
A stirring documentary tribute to the cultural theorist Stuart Hall...'
- Dave Calhoun, Time Out ****
'Akomfrah finds a new and quietly moving significance in Hall's own life story'
- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian ****
'A fascinating visual tapestry of archive material' -Tom Dawson, Total Film ****
'It’s a lot of material, fluidly edited by Nse Asuquo into a sustained narrative...' - Guy Lodge, Variety

THE STUART HALL PROJECT
A stirring documentary tribute to the cultural theorist Stuart Hall...'
- Dave Calhoun, Time Out ****
'Akomfrah finds a new and quietly moving significance in Hall's own life story'
- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian ****
'A fascinating visual tapestry of archive material' -Tom Dawson, Total Film ****
'It’s a lot of material, fluidly edited by Nse Asuquo into a sustained narrative...' - Guy Lodge, Variety

THE STUART HALL PROJECT
A stirring documentary tribute to the cultural theorist Stuart Hall...'
- Dave Calhoun, Time Out ****
'Akomfrah finds a new and quietly moving significance in Hall's own life story'
- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian ****
'A fascinating visual tapestry of archive material' -Tom Dawson, Total Film ****
'It’s a lot of material, fluidly edited by Nse Asuquo into a sustained narrative...' - Guy Lodge, Variety
Selected Films
NSE ASUQUO
FILM EDITOR

THE STUART HALL PROJECT
A stirring documentary tribute to the cultural theorist Stuart Hall...'
- Dave Calhoun, Time Out ****
'Akomfrah finds a new and quietly moving significance in Hall's own life story'
- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian ****
'A fascinating visual tapestry of archive material' -Tom Dawson, Total Film ****
'It’s a lot of material, fluidly edited by Nse Asuquo into a sustained narrative...' - Guy Lodge, Variety

THE STUART HALL PROJECT
A stirring documentary tribute to the cultural theorist Stuart Hall...'
- Dave Calhoun, Time Out ****
'Akomfrah finds a new and quietly moving significance in Hall's own life story'
- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian ****
'A fascinating visual tapestry of archive material' -Tom Dawson, Total Film ****
'It’s a lot of material, fluidly edited by Nse Asuquo into a sustained narrative...' - Guy Lodge, Variety
Selected Films
NSE ASUQUO
FILM EDITOR
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THE UNFINISHED CONVERSATION
JOHN AKOMFRAH
UK, 2012
EDITED ON FINAL CUT PRO
45mins THREE SCREEN FILM ESSAY / DOCUMENTARY
SMOKING DOGS FILMS, FILM LONDON, BFI
EXHIBITED AT:
TATE BRITAIN, LIVERPOOL BIENNALE, TAIPEI BIENNALE, NEW YORK'S MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
COMMISSIONED BY AUTOGRAPH (ABP)
The Unfinished Conversation examines academic Stuart Hall’s memories and personal archives extracted and relocated in an imagined and different time, reflecting the questionable nature of memory itself. Stuart Hall is a product of both Europe and the Caribbean. His interests and concerns include Marxism, nuclear disarmament, culture, race, television, cultural politics, and diasporic identities. Akomfrah describes the work as an exercise in “spectropoetics”: a re-visitation of the ghosts that haunt a life, and an interrogation of the fundamental transformations in the imaginary that those hauntings ultimately produce. Hence, the work moves between Hall’s voice, ideas, memories, inventions, and insights, and immerses his biography in historical events. For Hall, identity is never a finished product or a given reality. Rather, it is an ever-changing relation that emerges in-between subjects and history- as, in his words, an “unfinished conversation.”
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Adrian Searle, The Guardian
...as unexpected as it is brilliant