baff akoto
@baffakoto
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storyteller and artist working on our digital future... and the perfect plate of jollof!! https://t.co/GRxEXQOLS6
Joined June 2010
Meet our #AlternateRealities Advisory Committee: @baffakoto, Jorge Caballero & @alexmakesvr 🙌💫Led by Creative Director @RaulNinoZ & #AlternateRealities Consultant @VerityNalley, the Committee will be selecting projects for this year's exhibition. → https://t.co/Ue3rTekgoe
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“The pinnacle of the @BamakoBiennale is @baffakoto’s ‘Leave the Edges’ — a beautifully wrought exploration of how diasporic African culture is formed — which won the jury’s Seydou Keita Grand Prize” ✨✨ @Josh_ua_Surtees l @FT
https://t.co/H68mC0BszG
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The Loss and Found sound memorial is moving onto Glasgow tomorrow! Come experience the loop at the amazing @Hidden_Gardens from Tues 18th October!
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"Loss and Found" now showing at Common Space in Bradford @Common_WealthHQ 🥰🥰🥰🥰 Come join the public event Weds 12 October 6-8 pm. #climatechange #climateaction #makeithappen
https://t.co/UHeSdIiZ8O
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The inaugural BFI & @CHANEL Filmmaker Award winners @baffakoto (Queen of Glory), @samfirthfilms (The Wolf Suit), @Kath_Ferguson (Nothing Compares) and @Erfan_Saa (Child of Empire) with BFI Fellow Tilda Swinton and BFI CEO Ben Roberts. #BFILuminous
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Winners Announced for BFI and Chanel Filmmaker Awards https://t.co/JMVwbjRCnV
#BFISouthbank #filmmakers #awards #chanel #production #director #writer #producer
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As an antidote to absolutely everything, we've been hope-building @TheAlbanySE8 @WeAreLewisham today, together with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia @camilo_tirado @egovanlink... Loss and Found opens tomorrow, come listen to the loop and find out more here: https://t.co/hUGZ5pjj3E
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Thanks to @BFI & @CHANEL Grateful to the jury - Tilda Swinton, @Edward_Enninful, Marie-Louise Khondji and @bfiben Congrats to my fellow awardees @samfirthfilms @Kath_Ferguson & @Erfan_Saa Thanks to @LidzAmaAppiah and @alfreddunhill for the garments
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@itsnanamensah @krobhix @baffakoto @jamundane Check out the screening details at https://t.co/hhTxP0tCYd This Q&A tour has been organised in collaboration with @BirdsEyeViewRTF and @weareparable
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🚨 Sound the alarm, it's ONE WEEK TO GO until #QueenOfGlory hits UK screens We’re kicking off the release week with a Q&A tour where you can catch writer-director & lead actor @itsnanamensah in conversation along with producers @krobhix, @baffakoto and @jamundane (hosts TBC)
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Cannot wait to see this. Coming to UK cinemas soon. Bought for uk by @DelphiLievens @BohemiaMediaUK and produced by @baffakoto
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In the writer-director Nana Mensah’s amusing and astute feature debut, a death forces a reckoning for a brainy young Ghanaian-American living in both worlds.
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Come join us and @BirdsEyeViewRTF for this special day-of-release @QueenofGlory22 screening & Q&A with: 🎬 director/writer/star @itsnanamensah 🎞️ producers @baffakoto, @krobhix, @jamundane & Lidz-Ama Appiah 📍 at @RitzyCinema ⌚️ next Friday at 6:30pm!
"You don't have to be your mother. You have to define you." QUEEN OF GLORY by @itsnanamensah is a love letter to the Ghanian-American experience 🇬🇭👑 Join us for our captioned Q&A w director, writer, star Nana Mensah + producers @RitzyCinema 26 AUG 🎟️ https://t.co/H6yyfJQJPt
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My friend Nana's movie QUEEN OF GLORY is the best movie I've seen this year - brilliant, funny, inventive, deeply profound & emotional. It's in NY/LA theaters NOW + opening tomorrow in these cities👇 GO! This is how we keep independent film (and original filmmaking) alive❤️💪
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T H E L O V E A N D T H E M A G I C Tonight Sat 23 July, 6-11pm, St Boniface Church, E. london @_TheWhitechapel FREE late-night arts festival #NocturnalCreatures
@baffakoto audio-visual installation with 3 music ‘interventions’ performed by @eskaonline with @dave_okumu_
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Thankful. This is very dope!
#AAP2022 | Winner Announcement Congratulations to @baffakoto – winner of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2022! Akoto's immersive film 'Leave the Edges' explores complex ancestries of African diasporic cultural expression. On view @YorkArtGallery from tomorrow: https://t.co/A59WxHRJl2
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This Saturday! We're in Bradford, running a free workshop about emotions and climate change, headed up by @Emmabob3 @moteofdustfilms. VR (by @HeartWire_ @Monobanda), writing, crafting, moving, pizza! Come join, sign-up link below. https://t.co/Em5SRCLHSc 👇
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Join a playful climate-themed workshop run by Dissonant Futures, with the chance to try VR, create sound and more. Plus free lunch!
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Come join our first workshop as part of our Loss and Found project, with @baffakoto @moteofdustfilms plus @angelaytchan. Please share/RT!🔥💚🌏
At the @DissonantFuture free workshop, Loss + Found this Saturday, artists @baffakoto & @moteofdustfilms direct us on a creative journey via art and VR, through climate grief in pursuit of hope, in the creation of a new collaborative work: https://t.co/GG5DQmBY6N Free lunch!
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“There’s something really fundamental about using XR mediums and trying to make sure they’re not exclusionary.” – @baffakoto speaking at #FutureNow2022
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Who's in York on Friday? Come through to our session at @aestheticamag 's Future Now Symposium 2022. I'm in conversation with @skinderhundal from 4.15pm local time @theyorkshiremuseum @ The Yorkshire Museum
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Reality and Technology | @baffakoto at #FutureNow2022 Join the Aesthetica Art Prize shortlisted artist as he considers how Virtual Reality and new technologies can be used to investigate the past. Get your tickets for the symposium now. 5-6 May, York UK: https://t.co/Fdtm9qKUQI
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