Directing · b. 1957 · Accra, Ghana

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".

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