Precarity

A slow, immersive gallery piece that drifts through sound and image like a half-remembered dream, asking patience and rewarding it with atmosphere.

Directed by

John Akomfrah

Overview

A three-channel video installation, working with the themes of risk, hybridity and the unfathomable to explore the city of New Orleans through the remarkable life and times of Charles “Buddy” Bolden, the first person known to have explored the sonic tonalities of the music we now call jazz.

How it feels

Melancholic, eerie, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Memory, music, race, identity

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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