John Akomfrah
Directing1957Accra, Ghana
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
Acting History
2024
Scala!!!
as Self
Listening All Night to the Rain
Director
2023
Becoming Wind
Director
Arcadia
Director
2021
Five Murmurations
Director
Triptych
Director
2019
Four Nocturnes
Director
2018
2016
2015
Vertigo Sea
Director
2014
Transfigured Night
Director
Numen
Director
2013
Notes for a Return
Thanks
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Director
The Stuart Hall Project
Director
The March
Director
The Unfinished Conversation
Director
2012
2010
2009
Genome Chronicles
Director
2008
This Is My Africa
as Self
2003
1999
Riot
Director
1998
1996
The Last Angel of History
Director
Memory Room 451
Director
1993
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Director
1992
Black and White in Colour
as Self
1991
A Touch of the Tar Brush
as Himself
Who Needs a Heart
Director
Who Needs a Heart
Writer
A Touch of the Tar Brush
Director
A Touch of the Tar Brush
Writer
1990
Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Editorial Consultant
1986
Handsworth Songs
Director
Handsworth Songs
Additional Photography
1984
1983
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
Director