John Akomfrah

Directing·May 4, 1957·Accra, Ghana

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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".

Film	Credit
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks2025 · Actor	Actor
Listening All Night to the Rain2024 · Director	Director
Scala!!!2024 · Self	Self
AArcadia2023 · Director	Director
Becoming Wind2023 · Director	Director
FFive Murmurations2021 · Director	Director
Triptych2021 · Director	Director
Four Nocturnes2019 · Director	Director
John On The Void2018 · Actor	Actor
Mimesis: African Soldier2018 · Director	Director
Precarity2017 · Director	Director
Purple2017 · Director	Director
The Airport2016 · Director	Director
Acts Of Faith2016 · Director	Director
Tropikos2016 · Director	Director
Vertigo Sea2015 · Director	Director
Transfigured Night2014 · Director	Director
Numen2014 · Director	Director
The Unfinished Conversation2013 · Director	Director
Venice 70: Future Reloaded2013 · Director	Director
TThe March2013 · Director	Director
The Stuart Hall Project2013 · Director	Director
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington2013 · Director	Director
PPeripeteia2012 · Director	Director
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky2012 · Director	Director
HHauntologies2012 · Director	Director
The Nine Muses2010 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Mnemosyne2010 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
GGenome Chronicles2009 · Director	Director
This Is My Africa2008 · Self	Self
SStan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz2003 · Director	Director
DDigitopia2001 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong1999 · Director	Director
Riot1999 · Director	Director
Speak Like a Child1998 · Director	Director
The Call of Mist1998 · Director	Director
Goldie: When Saturn Returns1998 · Director	Director
Martin Luther King: Days of Hope1997 · Director	Director
The Last Angel of History1996 · Director	Director
Memory Room 4511996 · Director	Director
Seven Songs for Malcolm X1993 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Black and White in Colour1992 · Self	Self
A Touch of the Tar Brush1991 · Himself, Director, Writer	Himself, Director, Writer
Who Needs a Heart1991 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Testament1988 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Handsworth Songs1986 · Director	Director
Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality1984 · Director	Director
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire1983 · Director	Director