JEONJU Intl. Film Festival

2th

Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers

Digitopia

Director_ John Akomfrah

UK 2001 30min Digi-Beta color/b&w shorts

Review

DIGITOPIA is a film in search of the emotional undercurrents of the digital, a film about a man living between an analogue and digital worlds, a man who works in the former but seeks his pleasures in the latter. He is a man who is in search of love in the digital domain, through the net and over the phone, but who wants his relationship to be in the analogue world. This space is his world of Digitopia.

CREDIT

DirectorJohn Akomfrah
ProducerDavid Lawson, Lina Gopaul

CinematographyDewald Aukema
EditorLisa Harney

SoundRecordist Trevor Mathison

DIRECTOR

John AKOMFRAH

He is a member of the Black Audio Film Collective, which was organized in 1982 to produce experimental and engagement movies. His special interest has been the area of racial discrimination. Since The mid-1990s, he has been involved in both analogue and digital film work. He received the John Grearson Award for his documentary debut, Handsworth Songs. Film Riot won the Grand-Prix of N-Vision at the first JIFF.

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