John Akomfrah
Directing
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".
As actor 6
On the crew 46
Becoming Wind
2023
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Handsworth Songs
1986
Transfigured Night
2014
Riot
1999
Precarity
2017
Purple
2017
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
Five Murmurations
2021
Mnemosyne
2010
Testament
1988
Four Nocturnes
2019
Vertigo Sea
2015
Peripeteia
2012
Genome Chronicles
2009
Arcadia
2023
Numen
2014
Hauntologies
2012
Listening All Night to the Rain
2024
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
2012
Tropikos
2016
The March
2013
Notes for a Return
2013
The Last Angel of History
1996
Triptych
2021
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993
Speak Like a Child
1998
The Airport
2016
The Nine Muses
2010
Martin Luther King: Days of Hope
1997
Acts Of Faith
2016
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
1983
Mimesis: African Soldier
2018
A Touch of the Tar Brush
1991
Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1990
The Unfinished Conversation
2013
Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
1984
The Call of Mist
1998
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999
The Stuart Hall Project
2013
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
2003
Memory Room 451
1996
Who Needs a Heart
1991
Goldie: When Saturn Returns
1998
The Hour of the Dog
Digitopia
2001