John Akomfrah
Biography
John Akomfrah, CBE (born 4 May 1957) is a British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".
Personal Details
Movies (48)
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
Listening All Night to the Rain
Director (Directing)
2024
Scala!!!
as Self
2024
Arcadia
Director (Directing)
2023
Becoming Wind
Director (Directing)
2023
Five Murmurations
Director (Directing)
2021
Triptych
Director (Directing)
2021
Four Nocturnes
Director (Directing)
2019
John On The Void
2018
Mimesis: African Soldier
Director (Directing)
2018
Precarity
Director (Directing)
2017
Purple
Director (Directing)
2017
The Airport
Director (Directing)
2016
Acts Of Faith
Director (Directing)
2016
Tropikos
Director (Directing)
2016
Vertigo Sea
Director (Directing)
2015
Transfigured Night
Director (Directing)
2014
Numen
Director (Directing)
2014
The Unfinished Conversation
Director (Directing)
2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Director (Directing)
2013
The March
Director (Directing)
2013
The Stuart Hall Project
Director (Directing)
2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Director (Directing)
2013
Peripeteia
Director (Directing)
2012
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
Director (Directing)
2012
Hauntologies
Director (Directing)
2012
The Nine Muses
Director (Directing)
2010
Mnemosyne
Director (Directing)
2010
Genome Chronicles
Director (Directing)
2009
This Is My Africa
as Self
2008
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
Director (Directing)
2003
Digitopia
Director (Directing)
2001
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
Director (Directing)
1999
Riot
Director (Directing)
1999
Speak Like a Child
Director (Directing)
1998
The Call of Mist
Director (Directing)
1998
Goldie: When Saturn Returns
Director (Directing)
1998
The Last Angel of History
Director (Directing)
1996
Memory Room 451
Director (Directing)
1996
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Director (Directing)
1993
Black and White in Colour
as Self
1992
A Touch of the Tar Brush
as Himself
1991
Who Needs a Heart
Director (Directing)
1991
Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Editorial Consultant (Editing)
1990
Testament
Director (Directing)
1988
Handsworth Songs
Director (Directing)
1986
Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
Director (Directing)
1984
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
Director (Directing)
1983