Twenty-five years after the end of the Trojan War, Odysseus still has not returned home. So his son, Telemachus, sets off an epic journey in search of his lost father. So begins Homer s epic poem, The Odyssey - the most revered of ancient epic poems and narrative reference point for John Akomfrah s unusual and genre defying story about chance, fate and redemption. Structured as an allegorical fable and loosely inspired by existential science fiction, THE NINE MUSES is a stylized, unusual and idiosyncratic retelling of the history of mass migration to post war Britain through the suggestive lens of the Homeric epic. In addition to its resonance with Homer"s epic, THE NINE MUSES was devised and scripted from the writings of a wide range of authors including Dante Alighieri, Samuel Beckett, Emily Dickinson, James Joyce, John Milton, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Shakespeare, Sophocles, Dylan Thomas, Matsuo Basho, TS Elliot, Li Po, and Rabindranth Tagore. Divided into nine overlapping musical chapters and mixing a vast array of archival material with shot scenes from the United States and the United Kingdom, THE NINE MUSES is an journey through myth, folklore, history, and a museum of intangible things. It is a "sorrow song" or "song cycle" on journeys and migration, memory and elegy, knowledge and identity. SEVEN SONGS FOR MALCOLM X is described by Akomfrah as a black British attempt to celebrate one of the few heroes left in the black political canon. Akomfrah collects testimonies, eyewitness accounts and dramatic reenactments to tell the life, legacy, loves, and losses of Malcolm X. Featuring interviews with Malcolm"s widow Betty Shabazz, Spike Lee, and many others, SEVEN SONGS FOR MALCOLM X is an intriguing homage to the inspirational civil rights leader. It won Best Documentary at the Image D Ailleurs Film Festival in Paris, as well as awards at the San Francisco and Chicago Film Festivals. THE LAST ANGEL OF HISTORY examines the relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and computer technology. This Afrofuturist cinematic essay posits science fiction--from alien abduction to genetic engineering--as a metaphor for the Pan-African experience of forced displacement, cultural alienation, and otherness. Akomfrah"s analysis is rooted in an exploration of the works of artists such as funkmaster George Clinton and his Mothership Connection, Sun Ra"s use of extraterrestrial iconography, and the writings of black science fiction authors Samuel R. Delaney and Octavia Butler. The film intertwines images of Pan-African life from different periods of history are intercut with interviews with leading black cultural figures, including DJ Spooky, musician Derek May, astronaut Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr., Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols, novelist Ismael Reed, and cultural critics Greg Tate and Kodwo Eshun.