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 |