John Akomfrah

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John Akomfrah

Directing 69 May 4, 1957

Accra, Ghana

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…

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Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

5.0 2013 Movie
Handsworth Songs

Handsworth Songs

5.9 1986 Movie
Scala!!!

Scala!!!

7.8 2024 Movie
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

10.0 2013 Movie
The Last Angel of History

The Last Angel of History

7.0 1996 Movie
Riot

Riot

10.0 1999 Movie
Speak Like a Child

Speak Like a Child

4.3 1998 Movie
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks

Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks

9.0 2025 Movie
Testament

Testament

7.0 1988 Movie
Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

10.0 1993 Movie
Purple

Purple

2017 Movie
The Nine Muses

The Nine Muses

5.6 2010 Movie

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks

    Movie

  2. 2024
    Listening All Night to the Rain

    Movie Director

  3. 2024
    Scala!!!

    Movie Self

  4. 2023
    Arcadia

    Movie Director

  5. 2023
    Becoming Wind

    Movie Director

  6. 2021
    Five Murmurations

    Movie Director

  7. 2021
    Triptych

    Movie Director

  8. 2019
    Four Nocturnes

    Movie Director

  9. 2018
    John On The Void

    Movie

  10. 2018
    Mimesis: African Soldier

    Movie Director

  11. 2017
    Precarity

    Movie Director

  12. 2017
    Purple

    Movie Director

  13. 2016
    Acts Of Faith

    Movie Director

  14. 2016
    Tropikos

    Movie Director

  15. 2016
    The Airport

    Movie Director

  16. 2015
    Vertigo Sea

    Movie Director

More credits
  1. 2014
    Transfigured Night

    Movie Director

  2. 2014
    Numen

    Movie Director

  3. 2013
    The Unfinished Conversation

    Movie Director

  4. 2013
    Notes for a Return

    Movie Thanks

  5. 2013
    Venice 70: Future Reloaded

    Movie Director

  6. 2013
    The March

    Movie Director

  7. 2013
    The Stuart Hall Project

    Movie Director

  8. 2013
    Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

    Movie Director

  9. 2012
    Peripeteia

    Movie Director

  10. 2012
    At the Graveside of Tarkovsky

    Movie Director

  11. 2012
    Hauntologies

    Movie Director

  12. 2010
    The Nine Muses

    Movie Director

  13. 2010
    Mnemosyne

    Movie Director

  14. 2009
    Genome Chronicles

    Movie Director

  15. 2008
    This Is My Africa

    Movie Self

  16. 2003
    Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz

    Movie Director

  17. 2001
    Digitopia

    Movie Director

  18. 1999
    The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

    Movie Director

  19. 1999
    Riot

    Movie Director

  20. 1998
    Speak Like a Child

    Movie Director

  21. 1998
    The Call of Mist

    Movie Director

  22. 1998
    Goldie: When Saturn Returns

    Movie Director

  23. 1997
    Martin Luther King: Days of Hope

    Movie Director

  24. 1996
    The Last Angel of History

    Movie Director