John Akomfrah
- Directing
- May 4, 1957 · 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
Filmography
- Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
- Listening All Night to the Rain · Director
- Scala!!! · Self
- Arcadia · Director
- Becoming Wind · Director
- Five Murmurations · Director
- Triptych · Director
- Four Nocturnes · Director
- John On The Void
- Mimesis: African Soldier · Director
- Precarity · Director
- Purple · Director
- The Airport · Director
- Acts Of Faith · Director
- Tropikos · Director
- Vertigo Sea · Director
- Transfigured Night · Director
- Numen · Director
- The Unfinished Conversation · Director
- Notes for a Return · Thanks
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded · Director
- The March · Director
- The Stuart Hall Project · Director
- Martin Luther King and the March on Washington · Director
- Peripeteia · Director
- At the Graveside of Tarkovsky · Director
- Hauntologies · Director
- The Nine Muses · Writer, Director
- Mnemosyne · Writer, Director
- Genome Chronicles · Director
- This Is My Africa · Self
- Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz · Director
- Digitopia · Director, Writer
- The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong · Director
- Riot · Director
- Speak Like a Child · Director
- The Call of Mist · Director
- Goldie: When Saturn Returns · Director
- Martin Luther King: Days of Hope · Director
- The Last Angel of History · Director
- Memory Room 451 · Director
- Seven Songs for Malcolm X · Director, Writer
- Black and White in Colour · Self
- A Touch of the Tar Brush · Self, Director
- Who Needs a Heart · Director, Writer
- Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan · Editorial Consultant
- Testament · Director, Writer
- Handsworth Songs · Director, Additional Photography
- Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality · Director
- Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire · Director
- The Hour of the Dog · Director