
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".
Acting (5 movies)
Directing (43 movies)

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013

Four Nocturnes
2019

Triptych
2021

The Nine Muses
2010

Handsworth Songs
1986

The Stuart Hall Project
2013

Mnemosyne
2010

Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013

Speak Like a Child
1998
Peripeteia
2012
The March
2013
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
2003

Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993

The Last Angel of History
1996

Numen
2014
Digitopia
2001

Testament
1988

Who Needs a Heart
1991
Five Murmurations
2021

Mimesis: African Soldier
2018

Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster
2013
Hauntologies
2012

Becoming Wind
2023

Memory Room 451
1996
Arcadia
2023

Vertigo Sea
2015

The Airport
2016

Tropikos
2016

Acts Of Faith
2016

The Unfinished Conversation
2013

At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
2012

Purple
2017

Riot
1999

Listening All Night to the Rain
2024

Goldie: When Saturn Returns
1998

Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
1983

Transfigured Night
2014

A Touch of the Tar Brush
1991

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999

The Call of Mist
1998
Genome Chronicles
2009

Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
1984

Precarity
2017
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Testament | 1988 | Writer | 
| Who Needs a Heart | 1991 | Writer | 
| A Touch of the Tar Brush | 1991 | Writer | 
| Seven Songs for Malcolm X | 1993 | Writer | 
| Digitopia | 2001 | Writer | 
| Mnemosyne | 2010 | Writer | 
| The Nine Muses | 2010 | Writer | 



