Produced while the Black Audio Film Collective were undergraduates, Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire is the first of a two-part 35mm slide-tape text entitled Expeditions; part two is entitled Images of Nationality. The work toured England from November 1984 to March 1985, using a Kodak dissolve unit to sequence images into narrative. The soundtrack to Signs of Empire, which consisted of tape loops of musique concrete and political speeches, was amplified to create a powerful environment of dread.
John Akomfrah
Director
The Class of ‘9271%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Elstree 197661%
Directed by John Ford70%
Above Majestic73%
Maria by Callas73%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Sidney70%
McQueen74%
The Velvet Underground67%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
A Plastic Ocean75%
The Captains63%
28 Up75%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me84%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
180° South72%
35 Up76%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
