John Akomfrah

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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".

Filmography

• Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks (2025)
• Listening All Night to the Rain (2024)
• Scala!!! (2024)
• Arcadia (2023)
• Becoming Wind (2023)
• Five Murmurations (2021)
• Triptych (2021)
• Four Nocturnes (2019)
• John On The Void (2018)
• 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)
• Notes for a Return (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)
• This Is My Africa (2008)
• 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)
• Martin Luther King: Days of Hope (1997)
• The Last Angel of History (1996)
• Memory Room 451 (1996)
• Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)
• Black and White in Colour (1992)
• A Touch of the Tar Brush (1991)
• Who Needs a Heart (1991)
• Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1990)
• Testament (1988)
• Handsworth Songs (1986)
• Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality (1984)
• Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire (1983)
• The Hour of the Dog