John Akomfrah
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday4 May 1957 (69 years old)
Place of birthAccra, Ghana
Known credits51
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".
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
Listening All Night to the Rain
2024 · Director
Scala!!!
2024 · Self
Arcadia
2023 · Director
Becoming Wind
2023 · Director
Five Murmurations
2021 · Director
Triptych
2021 · Director
Four Nocturnes
2019 · Director
John On The Void
2018
Mimesis: African Soldier
2018 · Director
Precarity
2017 · Director
Purple
2017 · Director
The Airport
2016 · Director
Tropikos
2016 · Director
Acts Of Faith
2016 · Director
Vertigo Sea
2015 · Director
Transfigured Night
2014 · Director
Numen
2014 · Director
The Unfinished Conversation
2013 · Director
Notes for a Return
2013 · Thanks
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Director
The March
2013 · Director
The Stuart Hall Project
2013 · Director
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013 · Director
Peripeteia
2012 · Director
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
2012 · Director
Hauntologies
2012 · Director
The Nine Muses
2010 · Director
The Nine Muses
2010 · Writer
Mnemosyne
2010 · Director
Mnemosyne
2010 · Writer
Genome Chronicles
2009 · Director
This Is My Africa
2008 · Self
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
2003 · Director
Digitopia
2001 · Director
Digitopia
2001 · Writer
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999 · Director
Riot
1999 · Director
Speak Like a Child
1998 · Director
The Call of Mist
1998 · Director
Goldie: When Saturn Returns
1998 · Director
Martin Luther King: Days of Hope
1997 · Director
The Last Angel of History
1996 · Director
Memory Room 451
1996 · Director
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993 · Director
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993 · Writer
Black and White in Colour
1992 · Self
A Touch of the Tar Brush
1991 · Himself
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