Movies: Smoking Dog Films

  • 2010
    The Nine Muses

    The Nine Muses (2010)

    The Nine Muses

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    Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant experience coming into the UK from 1960 onwards....

    The Nine Muses
  • 2024
    Listening All Night To The Rain

    Listening All Night To The Rain (2024)

    Listening All Night To The Rain

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    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) poetr...

    Listening All Night To The Rain
  • 1999
    Riot

    Riot (1999)

    Riot

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    John Akomfrah’s seminal Riot traces the riots in Liverpool during July 1981 in a climate of economic recession under Thatcher’s regime. Akomfrah captures this turning point in Britain’s struggle towards multicultural democracy through interviews reve...

    Riot
  • 2013
    The Stuart Hall Project

    The Stuart Hall Project (2013)

    The Stuart Hall Project

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    A person’s culture is something that is often described as fixed or defined and rooted in a particular region, nation, or state. Stuart Hall, one of the most preeminent intellectuals on the Left in Britain, updates this definition as he eloquently th...

    The Stuart Hall Project
  • 2001
    Digitopia

    Digitopia (2001)

    Digitopia

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    Drama about a man who lives in an analogue world but seeks to fulfil his desires in a digital world....

    Digitopia
  • 2019
    Four Nocturnes

    Four Nocturnes (2019)

    Four Nocturnes

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    Commissioned for the inaugural Ghana pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Four Nocturnes (2019) forms the third part of a trilogy of films including the renowned Vertigo Sea (2015) and Purple (2017) that explore the complex intertwined relationship betwe...

    Four Nocturnes
  • 2023
    Arcadia

    Arcadia (2023)

    Arcadia

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    Tackling the ecological implications of settler colonialism, extractive capitalism and the extinction of microorganisms, this multi-screen installation digs into the oral as well as representational history of various Indigenous cultures....

    Arcadia