smoldest:Last Angel of History (Black Audio Film Collective, 1996)Our data thief is surfing the inte
smoldest:Last Angel of History (Black Audio Film Collective, 1996)Our data thief is surfing the internet. Images flicker across, some abstract, some figurative. Other voices impinge. S/he tries to listen. One voice says: ‘The imaginative leap that we associate with science fiction, in terms of putting the human into an alien and alienating environment, is a gesture that repeatedly appears in the work of black writers and artists’. S/he scans a file of African American artists – words and pictures from Basquiat, Ellison, Gomez, Futura 2000 drift by. S/he locates the voice – it’s Samuel Delaney. Delaney elaborates on why this might be the case.(John Akomfrah and Edward George)https://vimeo.com/80634679 -- source link
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