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Gender:Unspecified
Birth Date:1957-05-04 00:00:00
Birth Place:Accra, Ghana
Known For:Directing
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John Akomfrah
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 (40)
Black and White in Colour
Role: Self1992
Scala!!!
Role: Self2024
This Is My Africa
Role: Self2008
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
actor2025
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
director2012
Listening All Night to the Rain
director2024
The Unfinished Conversation
director2013
Acts Of Faith
director2016
Tropikos
director2016
The Airport
director2016
Handsworth Songs
additional photography1986
Vertigo Sea
director2015
No Image
Arcadia
director2023
Memory Room 451
director1996
No Image
Digitopia
writer2001
Becoming Wind
director2023
No Image
Hauntologies
director2012
Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster
director2013
Purple
director2017
Riot
director1999
No Image
Five Murmurations
director2021
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
director1983
Transfigured Night
director2014
Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
editorial consultant1990
Who Needs a Heart
writer1991
A Touch of the Tar Brush
writer1991
A Touch of the Tar Brush
director1991
The Call of Mist
director1998
No Image
Genome Chronicles
director2009
Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
director1984
Precarity
director2017
No Image
Notes for a Return
thanks2013
The Stuart Hall Project
director2013
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
writer1993
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
director2013
Goldie: When Saturn Returns
director1998
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
director1999
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
director2013
The Last Angel of History
director1996
John On The Void
actor2018