

John Akomfrah
Director · Actor · WriterJohn 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".
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DIRECTOR44

Listening All Night to the Rain
2024
Director

Becoming Wind
2023
Director
- Arcadia
Arcadia
2023
Director

Triptych
2021
Director
- Five Murmurations
Five Murmurations
2021
Director

Four Nocturnes
2019
Director

Mimesis: African Soldier
2018
Director

Purple
2017
Director

Precarity
2017
Director

The Airport
2016
Director

Acts Of Faith
2016
Director

Tropikos
2016
Director

Vertigo Sea
2015
Director

Numen
2014
Director

Transfigured Night
2014
Director

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
Director

The Stuart Hall Project
2013
Director

Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Director
- The March
The March
2013
Director

The Unfinished Conversation
2013
Director
- Peripeteia
Peripeteia
2012
Director
- Hauntologies
Hauntologies
2012
Director

At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
2012
Director

The Nine Muses
2010
Director

Mnemosyne
2010
Director
- Genome Chronicles
Genome Chronicles
2009
Director
- Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
2003
Director
- Digitopia
Digitopia
2001
Director

Riot
1999
Director

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999
Director

Speak Like a Child
1998
Director

Goldie: When Saturn Returns
1998
Director

The Call of Mist
1998
Director

Martin Luther King: Days of Hope
1997
Director

The Last Angel of History
1996
Director

Memory Room 451
1996
Director

Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993
Director

Who Needs a Heart
1991
Director

A Touch of the Tar Brush
1991
Director

Testament
1988
Director

Handsworth Songs
1986
Director

Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
1984
Director

Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
1983
Director

The Hour of the Dog
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