John Akomfrah

Directing

John Akomfrah

Born 4 May 1957 · Accra, Ghana · 69

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

Highlights

The Last Angel of History1996 · Film · Director
Venice 70: Future Reloaded2013 · Film · Director
Handsworth Songs1986 · Film · Director
The Nine Muses2010 · Film · Director
Acts Of Faith2016 · Film · Director
The Stuart Hall Project2013 · Film · Director

Filmography

Movies

38 films

Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks2025 · Film
Listening All Night to the Rain2024 · Film · Director
Becoming Wind2023 · Film · Director
Triptych2021 · Film · Director
Four Nocturnes2019 · Film · Director
John On The Void2018 · Film
Mimesis: African Soldier2018 · Film · Director
Precarity2017 · Film · Director
Purple2017 · Film · Director
The Airport2016 · Film · Director
Tropikos2016 · Film · Director
Acts Of Faith2016 · Film · Director
Vertigo Sea2015 · Film · Director
Transfigured Night2014 · Film · Director
Numen2014 · Film · Director
The Unfinished Conversation2013 · Film · Director
Venice 70: Future Reloaded2013 · Film · Director
The Stuart Hall Project2013 · Film · Director
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington2013 · Film · Director
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky2012 · Film · Director
The Nine Muses2010 · Film · Director
Mnemosyne2010 · Film · Director
Digitopia2001 · Film · Director
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong1999 · Film · Director
Riot1999 · Film · Director
Speak Like a Child1998 · Film · Director
The Call of Mist1998 · Film · Director
Goldie: When Saturn Returns1998 · Film · Director
Martin Luther King: Days of Hope1997 · Film · Director
The Last Angel of History1996 · Film · Director
Memory Room 4511996 · Film · Director
Seven Songs for Malcolm X1993 · Film · Director
A Touch of the Tar Brush1991 · Film · Writer
Who Needs a Heart1991 · Film · Director
Testament1988 · Film · Director
Handsworth Songs1986 · Film · Director
Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality1984 · Film · Director
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire1983 · Film · Director