FIVE MURMURATIONS

Dir. John Akomfrah Prod. Smoking Dogs Films 2021 55 min. UK

Akomfrah’s three-screen video installation documents how individuals and communities have been coping with the pandemic, the radical mobilisation seen on the streets and the disruption of cycles of racism, and the increasingly urgent crisis of climate change. Five Murmurations is a deep exploration into our understanding of the personal within a collective consciousness of emergency, portraiture, mortality, revenge, mourning and memory.

• Lysson Gallery, NY - 2021

• Centraal Museum , The Netherlands - 2022

• National Museum of African Art , Washington - 2023