John Akomfrah
Directing
1957-05-04 · Accra, Ghana
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".
Filmography
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025 · Movie
The Hour of the Dog
2025 · Movie
Listening All Night to the Rain
2024 · Movie
Scala!!!
2024 · Movie
Arcadia
2023 · Movie
Becoming Wind
2023 · Movie
Five Murmurations
2021 · Movie
Triptych
2021 · Movie
Four Nocturnes
2019 · Movie
John On The Void
2018 · Movie
Mimesis: African Soldier
2018 · Movie
Precarity
2017 · Movie
Purple
2017 · Movie
Acts Of Faith
2016 · Movie
Tropikos
2016 · Movie
The Airport
2016 · Movie
Vertigo Sea
2015 · Movie
Transfigured Night
2014 · Movie
Numen
2014 · Movie
The Unfinished Conversation
2013 · Movie
Notes for a Return
2013 · Movie
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Movie
The March
2013 · Movie
The Stuart Hall Project
2013 · Movie
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013 · Movie
Peripeteia
2012 · Movie
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
2012 · Movie
Hauntologies
2012 · Movie
The Nine Muses
2010 · Movie
Mnemosyne
2010 · Movie
Genome Chronicles
2009 · Movie
This Is My Africa
2008 · Movie
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
2003 · Movie
Digitopia
2001 · Movie
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999 · Movie
Riot
1999 · Movie
Speak Like a Child
1998 · Movie
The Call of Mist
1998 · Movie
Goldie: When Saturn Returns
1998 · Movie
Martin Luther King: Days of Hope
1997 · Movie
The Last Angel of History
1996 · Movie
Memory Room 451
1996 · Movie
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993 · Movie
Black and White in Colour
1992 · Movie
A Touch of the Tar Brush
1991 · Movie
Who Needs a Heart
1991 · Movie
Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1990 · Movie
Testament
1988 · Movie
Handsworth Songs
1986 · Movie
Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
1984 · Movie
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
1983 · Movie