‘As Akomfrah contends, artists, as image makers who insist on emancipating the infinite, act as “custodians of a possible future”, implying a future of viewership too, a future reality impacted by the artwork, as well as a future context unanticipated by the filmmaker, which also reveals the present as necessarily incomplete and non-totalizable. Developing the same line of thinking, can we not also say that remembering past tragedies and imaging present wrongs – on the world-historical levels of slavery and colonialism, species extinction, nuclear war, and anthropogenic climate disruption – can also, in fact must, entail proposing, even cultivating, alternative futures?’ – TJ Demos writing about the work of artist John Akomfrah in ‘Beyond the World’s End: Arts of Living at the Crossing’, 2020 Image: John Akomfrah (@smoking_dogs_films), ‘Vertigo Sea’ (still), 2015