Directing

John Akomfrah

Born 1957-05-04 · Accra, Ghana

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".

Credits

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