John Akomfrah
Directing
Born May 4, 1957 · 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".
Directed (42)
Listening All Night to the Rain
2024
Arcadia
2023
Becoming Wind
2023
Five Murmurations
2021
Triptych
2021
Four Nocturnes
2019
Mimesis: African Soldier
2018
Precarity
2017
Purple
2017
The Airport
2016
Acts Of Faith
2016
Tropikos
2016
Vertigo Sea
2015
Transfigured Night
2014
Numen
2014
The Unfinished Conversation
2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
The March
2013
The Stuart Hall Project
2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
Peripeteia
2012
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
2012
Hauntologies
2012
The Nine Muses
2010
Mnemosyne
2010
Genome Chronicles
2009
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
2003
Digitopia
2001
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999
Riot
1999
Speak Like a Child
1998
The Call of Mist
1998
Goldie: When Saturn Returns
1998
The Last Angel of History
1996
Memory Room 451
1996
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993
A Touch of the Tar Brush
1991
Who Needs a Heart
1991
Testament
1988
Handsworth Songs
1986
Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
1984
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
1983
