Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic

Kahlil Joseph has collaborated with musicians FKA twigs, Flying Lotus, Sampha and Shabazz Palaces among many others. He has directed numerous films, music videos and advertisements across Africa, America and Europe. The award-winning filmmaker''s disruptive style ¿ which frequently merges visual representations of transcontinental experiences with the countercultural energies of Afrodiasporic music ¿ challenges the Eurocentric biases underpinning Western media. At the same time, his works generate various contradictions and tensions because they are themselves products situated within an economic framework of neoliberal capitalism, at once offering alternative ways of being while, simultaneously, participating in and thereby sustaining the social structures that they otherwise seek to subvert and dismantle.This is the first book-length study of Kahlil Joseph¿s work. Distinguishing the artist¿s personal and professional personas, it traces Joseph¿s career trajectory and artistic output,