John Akomfrah
Known for: Directing
Born: May 4, 1957
Place of birth: 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 politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".
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Filmography
51 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
9.0
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
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Listening All Night to the Rain
2024
7.8
Scala!!!
2024NR
Arcadia
2023
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Becoming Wind
2023NR
Five Murmurations
2021
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Triptych
2021
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Four Nocturnes
2019
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John On The Void
2018
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Mimesis: African Soldier
2018
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Precarity
2017
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Purple
2017
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The Airport
2016
8.0
Acts Of Faith
2016
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Tropikos
2016
8.0
Vertigo Sea
2015
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Transfigured Night
2014
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Numen
2014
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The Unfinished Conversation
2013NR
Notes for a Return
2013
5.0
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
20134.8
The March
2013
4.6
The Stuart Hall Project
2013
10.0
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013NR
Peripeteia
2012
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At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
2012NR
Hauntologies
2012
5.6
The Nine Muses
2010
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Mnemosyne
2010NR
Genome Chronicles
2009
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This Is My Africa
20088.0
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
20035.0
Digitopia
2001
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The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999
10.0
Riot
1999
4.3
Speak Like a Child
1998
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The Call of Mist
1998
7.0
Goldie: When Saturn Returns
1998
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Martin Luther King: Days of Hope
1997
7.0
The Last Angel of History
1996
4.5
Memory Room 451
1996
10.0
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993
10.0
Black and White in Colour
1992
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A Touch of the Tar Brush
1991
8.0
Who Needs a Heart
1991
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Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1990
7.0
Testament
1988
5.9
Handsworth Songs
1986
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Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
1984
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Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
1983
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The Hour of the Dog
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