Movie Details
Original Language:English
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Transfigured Night
27 min
Transfigured Night draws its inspiration from two sources of the same name Verklärte Nacht the German poem by Richard Dehmel from 1896 and the musical composition by Arnold Schoenburg in 1899 Using the fivepart structure of both the poem and the composition to reflect on the key moments and events which have shaped postcolonial histories Transfigured Night mirrors the relationship between postcolonial subject and state with that of Dehmels lovers speaking to the fleeting promises and ensuing disappointments of the postcolonial state
DirectorJohn Akomfrah
