Wishful filming, 30 years on

In ‘Wishful Filming’, the concluding part of artist filmmaker Sir John Akomfrah’s 1993 essay series first published in BFB’s inaugural issues, he contends with the absence of confidence around a broader question: how do we consider Black British film? Thirty years on, BFI curator Xavier Pillai re-examines that inquiry and explores evolutions within the experimental terrain of artists’ moving image.

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