Person
John Akomfrah
Directing · Born 1957-05-04 · 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
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
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Acts Of Faith
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Riot
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Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
Handsworth Songs
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Speak Like a Child
Director
Becoming Wind
Director
Scala!!!
Self
Five Murmurations
Director
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Director
Filmography
- 2025Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
- 2024Listening All Night to the RainDirector
- 2024Scala!!!Self
- 2023ArcadiaDirector
- 2023Becoming WindDirector
- 2021Five MurmurationsDirector
- 2021TriptychDirector
- 2019Four NocturnesDirector
- 2018John On The Void
- 2018Mimesis: African SoldierDirector
- 2017PrecarityDirector
- 2017PurpleDirector
- 2016The AirportDirector
- 2016TropikosDirector
- 2016Acts Of FaithDirector
- 2015Vertigo SeaDirector
- 2014Transfigured NightDirector
- 2014NumenDirector
- 2013The Unfinished ConversationDirector
- 2013Notes for a ReturnThanks
- 2013Venice 70: Future ReloadedDirector
- 2013The MarchDirector
- 2013The Stuart Hall ProjectDirector
- 2013Martin Luther King and the March on WashingtonDirector
- 2012PeripeteiaDirector
- 2012At the Graveside of TarkovskyDirector
- 2012HauntologiesDirector
- 2010The Nine MusesDirector
- 2010MnemosyneDirector
- 2009Genome ChroniclesDirector
- 2008This Is My AfricaSelf
- 2003Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British JazzDirector
- 2001DigitopiaDirector
- 1999The Wonderful World of Louis ArmstrongDirector
- 1999RiotDirector
- 1998Speak Like a ChildDirector
- 1998The Call of MistDirector
- 1998Goldie: When Saturn ReturnsDirector
- 1997Martin Luther King: Days of HopeDirector
- 1996The Last Angel of HistoryDirector
- 1996Memory Room 451Director
- 1993Seven Songs for Malcolm XDirector
- 1992Black and White in ColourSelf
- 1991A Touch of the Tar BrushHimself
- 1991Who Needs a HeartDirector
- 1990Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali KhanEditorial Consultant
- 1988TestamentDirector
- 1986Handsworth SongsDirector
- 1984Expeditions 2 – Images of NationalityDirector
- 1983Expeditions 1 – Signs of EmpireDirector
- —The Hour of the DogDirector
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