John Akomfrah

John Akomfrah

🎞 Director

Born

4 May 1957 (68)

Place of Birth

Accra, Ghana

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".

Filmography (40)

Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks

Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks

2025

9.0
Listening All Night to the Rain

Listening All Night to the Rain

2024

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Scala!!!

Scala!!!

2024

7.8

Arcadia

2023

🎬 Director
Becoming Wind

Becoming Wind

2023

🎬 Director

Five Murmurations

2021

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Triptych

Triptych

2021

🎬 Director
Four Nocturnes

Four Nocturnes

2019

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John On The Void

John On The Void

2018

Mimesis: African Soldier

Mimesis: African Soldier

2018

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Precarity

Precarity

2017

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Purple

Purple

2017

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The Airport

The Airport

2016

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Acts Of Faith

Acts Of Faith

2016

8.0
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Tropikos

Tropikos

2016

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Vertigo Sea

Vertigo Sea

2015

8.0
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Transfigured Night

Transfigured Night

2014

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Numen

Numen

2014

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The Unfinished Conversation

The Unfinished Conversation

2013

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Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013

4.9
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The March

2013

4.9
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The Stuart Hall Project

The Stuart Hall Project

2013

4.6
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Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

2013

10.0
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Peripeteia

2012

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At the Graveside of Tarkovsky

At the Graveside of Tarkovsky

2012

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Hauntologies

2012

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The Nine Muses

The Nine Muses

2010

5.6
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Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne

2010

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Genome Chronicles

2009

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This Is My Africa

This Is My Africa

2008

Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz

2003

9.0
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Digitopia

2001

5.0
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The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

1999

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Riot

Riot

1999

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Speak Like a Child

Speak Like a Child

1998

3.0
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The Call of Mist

The Call of Mist

1998

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Goldie: When Saturn Returns

Goldie: When Saturn Returns

1998

7.0
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The Last Angel of History

The Last Angel of History

1996

6.6
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Memory Room 451

Memory Room 451

1996

4.5
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Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

1993

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