
John Akomfrah
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 4, 1957 (age 69)
- Birthplace
- 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".
Known For
Filmography

The Hour of the Dog
Movie · Director

Listening All Night to the Rain
Movie · Director

Becoming Wind
Movie · Director
Arcadia
Movie · Director

Triptych
Movie · Director
Five Murmurations
Movie · Director

Four Nocturnes
Movie · Director

Mimesis: African Soldier
Movie · Director

Purple
Movie · Director

Precarity
Movie · Director

The Airport
Movie · Director

Acts Of Faith
Movie · Director

Tropikos
Movie · Director

Vertigo Sea
Movie · Director

Numen
Movie · Director

Transfigured Night
Movie · Director

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Movie · Director

The Stuart Hall Project
Movie · Director

Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Movie · Director
The March
Movie · Director

The Unfinished Conversation
Movie · Director
Peripeteia
Movie · Director
Hauntologies
Movie · Director

At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
Movie · Director

The Nine Muses
Movie · Director

Mnemosyne
Movie · Director
Genome Chronicles
Movie · Director
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
Movie · Director
Digitopia
Movie · Director

Riot
Movie · Director

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
Movie · Director

Speak Like a Child
Movie · Director

Goldie: When Saturn Returns
Movie · Director

The Call of Mist
Movie · Director

Martin Luther King: Days of Hope
Movie · Director

The Last Angel of History
Movie · Director

Memory Room 451
Movie · Director

Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Movie · Director

Who Needs a Heart
Movie · Director

A Touch of the Tar Brush
Movie · Director

Testament
Movie · Director

Handsworth Songs
Movie · Director

Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
Movie · Director

Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
Movie · Director


