Purple is a six-channel video installation addressing climate change, human communities and the wilderness. At a time when greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are at their highest levels in history, with people experiencing the significant impacts of climate change, including shifting weather patterns, rising sea levels, and more extreme weather events, Akomfrah’s Purple brings a multitude of ideas into conversation. These include animal extinctions, the memory of ice, the plastic ocean and global warming. Akomfrah has combined hundreds of hours of archival footage with newly shot film and a hypnotic sound score to produce the video installation.
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John Akomfrah Director · Dewald Aukema Cinematographer Lara Garcia-Reyne Editor
Worldwide gross $142M · Budget $15M · First release October 6, 2017
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$15,000,000
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$142,000,000
Gross vs. budget
9.5×
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United Kingdom
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Original language
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · October 6, 2017
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