I experienced a fourty five minute three channel video installation by John Akomfrah called The Unfinised Conversation. The video focused on the life and work of a theorist named Stuart Hall. He was a cultural theorist. John Akomfrah used archival footage of international events and a set of Stuart Hall interviews and intwins them. It felt like mesh of two documentaries. It also focuses on Stuarts Hall concept of ‘becoming’.

The installation had three screens side by side. It was not used to complete one image, instead each screen had its own image or video. I found it most fascinating when a screen or two screens would go completely red to draw the viewers attention to one particular screen. Also the choice of red instead of just black. The red maybe was related to some of the difficulties and struggles Britain was facing and darkside of how some immigrants didn’t make it. Sometimes the side screens operated as if they were trying to help create the scenery of the environment. There would be nature or a cultural video of a city and its people. The video would have chuncks of Stuart Halls interviews but there wasn’t a consistant flow of when you heard his voice and you also saw him.

The video focused a lot on . The struggles of immigrants and feeling not apart of a culture although they are actively participating and learning about it. The issue of assimilation of immigrants is an important topic that many Americans think about weather or not they are immigrants. Stuart Hall speaks out and mentions no matter how much he studies or changes to assimilate he will never feel like a Britain citizen. The video would go from moments like these with Stuart voice and image to the archival footage of historical events taking place in around the world. The archival footage would have a different person narrating. It would shift back and forth. When the story would change there was a small moment of silence but it would start up very suddenly and end the same way. It felt like fragments of history and Stuart.