The Stuart Hall Project (Washington premiere)

The Stuart Hall Project (Washington premiere)

The National Gallery of Art
East Building Auditorium
Between 3rd and 9th Streets, N.W. along Constitution Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C.
2014-01-19, 16:30 EST (Local Time)

The celebrated Jamaican-born sociologist and theorist Stuart Hall (b. 1932) is the founding father of cultural studies — the popular interdisciplinary field that has reworked the way in which cultural patterns are studied within societies. Combining archival imagery, home movies, and found footage with new material and a uniquely crafted Miles Davis soundtrack, “John Akomfrah’s filmmaking approach matches Hall’s intellect, its intimate play with memory, identity, and scholarly impulse traversing the changing historical landscape of the second half of the twentieth century” — British Film Institute. (John Akomfrah, 2013, DCP, 95 minutes)

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