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.
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Black Film Bulletin – first launched at the BFI’s African Caribbean Unit in the Spring of 1993 – we revisit renowned British-Ghanaian director Sir John Akomfrah’s seminal reflections on Black aesthetics, British culture, and the diasporic potential of Black British cinema.
In this issue: anime auteur Shinkai Makoto on Suzume, an A to Z of contemporary anime, the cinematic history of Dracula, a trip to the movies with Dario Argento, Albert Serra on Pacifiction, Mia Hansen-Løve on One Fine Morning, Black Film Bulletin and more!