Table of Contents

• Gill Henderson
• Foreword
• Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar
• Preface
• Jean Fisher
• In Living Memory... Archive and Testimony in the Films of the Black Audio Film Collective
• Kobena Mercer
• Post-colonial Trauerspiel
• Kodwo Eshun
• Drawing the Forms of Things Unknown
• Okwui Enwzor
• Coalition Building: Black Audio Film Collective and Transnational Post-colonialism
• John Akomfrah in Conversation with Kodwo Eshun
• An Absence of Ruins
• Introduction to Artists’ Writings
• John Akomfrah
• Black Independent Film-making: A Statement by the Black Audio Film Collective
• Linda Gopaul
• Which Way Forward?
• Edward George
• New Directions in Training
• Edward George
• Introduction to Reflections of the Black Experience
• Reece Auguiste
• Black Cinema, Poetics and New World Aesthetics
• Reece Auguiste
• Handsworth Songs: Some Background Notes
• Reece Auguiste
• Twilight: Auker’s World
• Avril Johnson
• Identity
• Reece Auguiste and Black Audio Film Collective
• Black Independents and Third Cinema: The British Context
• John Akomfrah interviewed by Linda Gopaul
• Colour Symbolism in Ghanaian Society
• Black Audio Film Collective
• Expeditions: On Race and Nation
• John Akomfrah
• On Writing Who Needs A Heart
• John Akomfrah
• Notations of Collective Inventions for Who Needs A Heart
• John Akomfrah
• On the Borderline
• Edward George
• (ghost the signal)
• Exhibition History
• Selected Filmography
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors’ Biographies
• List of Words
• Credits
• Index

About the Author

Kodwo Eshun is a lecturer in visual cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London and the author of More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction. Anjalika Sagar is cofounder, with Eshun, of the artists' collective the Otolith Group.

Reviews

In 1982, however, in the heyday of Thatcherism and an equal and opposite artistic radicalism, the Black Audio Film Collective was formed in Hackney, London, The Ghost of Songs, chronicles the worked of this group. The Independent 20070427