Known For
Directing
Born
May 04, 1957
Place of Birth
Accra, Ghana
Credits
51 titles
John Akomfrah
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
Acts Of Faith
Director
Tropikos
Director
The Airport
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
Director
Mnemosyne
Director
Genome Chronicles
Director
This Is My Africa
Self
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
Director
Digitopia
Director
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
Black and White in Colour
Self
A Touch of the Tar Brush
Himself
Who Needs a Heart
Director
Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Editorial Consultant
Testament
Director
Handsworth Songs
Director
Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
Director
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
Director