John Akomfrah
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
2025
Listening All Night to the Rain
2024
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Scala!!!
2024
Arcadia
2023
🎬 Director
Becoming Wind
2023
🎬 DirectorFive Murmurations
2021
🎬 Director
Triptych
2021
🎬 Director
Four Nocturnes
2019
🎬 Director
John On The Void
2018
Mimesis: African Soldier
2018
🎬 Director
Precarity
2017
🎬 Director
Purple
2017
🎬 Director
The Airport
2016
🎬 Director
Acts Of Faith
2016
Tropikos
2016
🎬 Director
Vertigo Sea
2015
Transfigured Night
2014
🎬 Director
Numen
2014
🎬 Director
The Unfinished Conversation
2013
🎬 Director
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
The March
2013
The Stuart Hall Project
2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
Peripeteia
2012
🎬 Director
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
2012
🎬 DirectorHauntologies
2012
🎬 Director
The Nine Muses
2010
Mnemosyne
2010
🎬 DirectorGenome Chronicles
2009
🎬 Director
This Is My Africa
2008
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
2003
Digitopia
2001
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999
🎬 Director
Riot
1999
🎬 Director
Speak Like a Child
1998
The Call of Mist
1998
🎬 Director
Goldie: When Saturn Returns
1998
The Last Angel of History
1996
Memory Room 451
1996
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993
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