John Akomfrah
Born: 1957-05-04 in Accra, Ghana
Known For: Directing
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".
Filmography
2024
- Scala!!! as Self
- Listening All Night to the Rain ... (Director)
2023
- Arcadia ... (Director)
- Becoming Wind ... (Director)
2021
- Triptych ... (Director)
- Five Murmurations ... (Director)
2019
- Four Nocturnes ... (Director)
2018
- John On The Void
- Mimesis: African Soldier ... (Director)
2016
- Acts Of Faith ... (Director)
- Tropikos ... (Director)
- The Airport ... (Director)
2015
- Vertigo Sea ... (Director)
2014
- Transfigured Night ... (Director)
- Numen ... (Director)
2013
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded ... (Director)
- Martin Luther King and the March on Washington ... (Director)
- The Stuart Hall Project ... (Director)
- The March ... (Director)
- Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster ... (Director)
- The Unfinished Conversation ... (Director)
2012
- At the Graveside of Tarkovsky ... (Director)
- Hauntologies ... (Director)
- Peripeteia ... (Director)
2010
- The Nine Muses ... (Writer)
- Mnemosyne ... (Writer)
2009
- Genome Chronicles ... (Director)
2008
- This Is My Africa as Self
2003
- Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz ... (Director)
2001
- Digitopia ... (Director)
1999
- The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong ... (Director)
- Riot ... (Director)
1998
- Goldie: When Saturn Returns ... (Director)
- Speak Like a Child ... (Director)
- The Call of Mist ... (Director)
1996
- The Last Angel of History ... (Director)
- Memory Room 451 ... (Director)
1993
- Seven Songs for Malcolm X ... (Director)
1992
- Black and White in Colour as Self
1991
- Who Needs a Heart ... (Director)
- A Touch of the Tar Brush as Himself
1990
- Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ... (Editorial Consultant)
1988
- Testament ... (Director)
1986
- Handsworth Songs ... (Director)
1984
- Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality ... (Director)
1983
- Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire ... (Director)