John Akomfrah

Birthday: 1957-05-04
Birthplace: Accra, Ghana
Gender: Male

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".

Credits

Year Title
2024-04-20 Listening All Night to the Rain
2023-11-30 Arcadia
2023-10-31 Becoming Wind
2021-09-09 Five Murmurations
2021-04-13 Triptych
2019-05-11 Four Nocturnes
2018-09-21 Mimesis: African Soldier
2017-10-10 Precarity
2017-10-06 Purple
2016-01-22 The Airport
2016-01-22 Acts Of Faith
2016-01-22 Tropikos
2015-05-09 Vertigo Sea
2014-03-07 Transfigured Night
2014-01-01 Numen
2013-10-26 The Unfinished Conversation
2013-08-28 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013-08-26 The March
2013-01-18 The Stuart Hall Project
2013-01-01 Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2012-10-08 Peripeteia
2012-10-05 At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
2012-01-02 Hauntologies
2010-09-01 The Nine Muses
2010-01-18 Mnemosyne
2009-07-01 Genome Chronicles
2003-01-01 Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
2001-04-28 Digitopia
1999-08-27 The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999-01-01 Riot
1998-09-04 Speak Like a Child
1998-07-07 The Call of Mist
1998-01-01 Goldie: When Saturn Returns
1996-09-11 The Last Angel of History
1996-01-01 Memory Room 451
1993-10-01 Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1991-11-12 A Touch of the Tar Brush
1991-01-02 Who Needs a Heart
1988-05-16 Testament
1986-05-08 Handsworth Songs
1984-01-01 Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
1983-01-01 Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire