Short film
Peripeteia
2012 · 18 min
A slow, haunting gallery piece that drifts between image and history, asking you to sit with absence and imagine lives the record erased.
- Directed by
- John Akomfrah
- Overview
- Peripeteia (Greek: περιπέτεια; a reversal of circumstances, or turning point) is a moving visualization of a black man and woman that appear in a 16th century drawing by the German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer. John Akomfrah uses the film to give them movement and to imagine their lives and actions.
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- Directed by
- John Akomfrah
