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