- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- May 4, 1957
- Place of Birth
- Accra, Ghana
John Akomfrah
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".
Filmography
movieTurner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
movieListening All Night to the Rain
2024 · Director
movieScala!!!
2024 · Self
Arcadia
movieArcadia
2023 · Director
movieBecoming Wind
2023 · Director
Five Murmurations
movieFive Murmurations
2021 · Director
movieTriptych
2021 · Director
movieFour Nocturnes
2019 · Director
movieJohn On The Void
2018
movieMimesis: African Soldier
2018 · Director
moviePrecarity
2017 · Director
moviePurple
2017 · Director
movieThe Airport
2016 · Director
movieActs Of Faith
2016 · Director
movieTropikos
2016 · Director
movieVertigo Sea
2015 · Director
movieTransfigured Night
2014 · Director
movieNumen
2014 · Director
movieThe Unfinished Conversation
2013 · Director
Notes for a Return
movieNotes for a Return
2013 · Thanks
movieVenice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Director
The March
movieThe March
2013 · Director
movieThe Stuart Hall Project
2013 · Director
movieMartin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013 · Director
Peripeteia
moviePeripeteia
2012 · Director
movieAt the Graveside of Tarkovsky
2012 · Director
Hauntologies
movieHauntologies
2012 · Director
movieThe Nine Muses
2010 · Director, Writer
movieMnemosyne
2010 · Director, Writer
Genome Chronicles
movieGenome Chronicles
2009 · Director
movieThis Is My Africa
2008 · Self
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
movieStan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
2003 · Director
Digitopia
movieDigitopia
2001 · Director, Writer
movieThe Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999 · Director
movieRiot
1999 · Director
movieSpeak Like a Child
1998 · Director
movieThe Call of Mist
1998 · Director
movieGoldie: When Saturn Returns
1998 · Director
movieMartin Luther King: Days of Hope
1997 · Director
movieThe Last Angel of History
1996 · Director
movieMemory Room 451
1996 · Director
movieSeven Songs for Malcolm X
1993 · Director, Writer
movieBlack and White in Colour
1992 · Self
movieA Touch of the Tar Brush
1991 · Himself, Director, Writer
movieWho Needs a Heart
1991 · Director, Writer
movieUtterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1990 · Editorial Consultant
movieTestament
1988 · Director, Writer
movieHandsworth Songs
1986 · Director, Additional Photography
movieExpeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
1984 · Director
movieExpeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
1983 · Director
movieThe Hour of the Dog
— · Director