John Akomfrah

John Akomfrah

  • Birthday: 1957-05-04
  • Place of birth: Accra, 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".

Filmography

This Is My Africa

2008

As Self

A Touch of the Tar Brush

1991

As Himself

Scala!!!

2024

As Self

Production

Memory Room 451

1996

As Director

The Nine Muses

2010

As Director

The Nine Muses

2010

As Writer

Handsworth Songs

1986

As Director

The Stuart Hall Project

2013

As Director

Mnemosyne

2010

As Director

Mnemosyne

2010

As Writer

Speak Like a Child

1998

As Director

The March

2013

As Director

Peripeteia

2012

As Director

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

1993

As Director

The Last Angel of History

1996

As Director

Digitopia

2001

As Director

Testament

1988

As Director

Who Needs a Heart

1991

As Director

Hauntologies

2012

As Director

Vertigo Sea

2015

As Director

Handsworth Songs

1986

As Additional Photography

The Airport

2016

As Director

Acts Of Faith

2016

As Director

Tropikos

2016

As Director

Purple

2017

As Director

Riot

1999

As Director

Transfigured Night

2014

As Director

Who Needs a Heart

1991

As Writer

A Touch of the Tar Brush

1991

As Director

The Call of Mist

1998

As Director

Genome Chronicles

2009

As Director

Precarity

2017

As Director

Four Nocturnes

2019

As Director

Triptych

2021

As Director

Numen

2014

As Director

Five Murmurations

2021

As Director

Testament

1988

As Writer

Mimesis: African Soldier

2018

As Director

Becoming Wind

2023

As Director

Digitopia

2001

As Writer

Arcadia

2023

As Director

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