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John Akomfrah

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
6

Gender
Male

Birthday
May 4, 1957 (69 years old)

Place of Birth
Accra, Ghana

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

Directing

2024Listening All Night to the Rain...Director
2023Arcadia...Director
2023Becoming Wind...Director
2021Five Murmurations...Director
2021Triptych...Director
2019Four Nocturnes...Director
2018Mimesis: African Soldier...Director
2017Precarity...Director
2017Purple...Director
2016The Airport...Director
2016Acts Of Faith...Director
2016Tropikos...Director
2015Vertigo Sea...Director
2014Transfigured Night...Director
2014Numen...Director
2013The Unfinished Conversation...Director
2013Venice 70: Future Reloaded...Director
2013The March...Director
2013The Stuart Hall Project...Director
2013Martin Luther King and the March on Washington...Director
2012Peripeteia...Director
2012At the Graveside of Tarkovsky...Director
2012Hauntologies...Director
2010The Nine Muses...Director
2010Mnemosyne...Director
2009Genome Chronicles...Director
2003Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz...Director
2001Digitopia...Director
1999The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong...Director
1999Riot...Director
1998Speak Like a Child...Director
1998The Call of Mist...Director
1998Goldie: When Saturn Returns...Director
1997Martin Luther King: Days of Hope...Director
1996The Last Angel of History...Director
1996Memory Room 451...Director
1993Seven Songs for Malcolm X...Director
1991A Touch of the Tar Brush...Director
1991Who Needs a Heart...Director
1988Testament...Director
1986Handsworth Songs...Director
1984Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality...Director
1983Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire...Director
The Hour of the Dog...Director

Crew

2013Notes for a Return...Thanks

Writing

2010The Nine Muses...Writer
2010Mnemosyne...Writer
2001Digitopia...Writer
1993Seven Songs for Malcolm X...Writer
1991A Touch of the Tar Brush...Writer
1991Who Needs a Heart...Writer
1988Testament...Writer

Editing

1990Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan...Editorial Consultant

Camera

1986Handsworth Songs...Additional Photography

Acting

2025Turner: The Secret Sketchbooksas
2024Scala!!!as Self
2018John On The Voidas
2008This Is My Africaas Self
1992Black and White in Colouras Self
1991A Touch of the Tar Brushas Himself