Interview. John Akomfrah in Conversation with Pratap Rughani at the AHRC Artists’ Moving Image Research Network

John Akomfrah OBE is an eminent film-maker and writer and, in 1982, was co-founder of the pioneering Black Audio Film Collective, a group that was central to the burgeoning black film culture in Britain. Since then, Akomfrah has gone on to win several awards for his film, television and gallery work, moving images practices that explore themes of memory, migration, race, history and identity, with landscape as a central metaphor for political and personal discovery.

Pratap Rughani is a documentary film director/producer whose work straddles artists’ film practice and broadcast contexts, with commissions for the British Council, Channel 4 and the BBC. He is Reader in Documentary Film & Course Director of M.A. Documentary Film at London College of Communication.

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