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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)

At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
director2012
⭐ 7

Testament
writer1988

Mimesis: African Soldier
director2018

Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster
director2013
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Hauntologies
director2012

Becoming Wind
director2023
⭐ 5
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Digitopia
writer2001
⭐ 4.5

Memory Room 451
director1996
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Arcadia
director2023
⭐ 8

Vertigo Sea
director2015
⭐ 5.5

Handsworth Songs
additional photography1986

The Airport
director2016

Tropikos
director2016
⭐ 8

Acts Of Faith
director2016

The Unfinished Conversation
director2013
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Five Murmurations
director2021

Purple
director2017
⭐ 10

Riot
director1999

Listening All Night to the Rain
director2024

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
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Genome Chronicles
director2009

Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
director1984

Precarity
director2017
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Notes for a Return
thanks2013
⭐ 5.6

The Nine Muses
director2010
⭐ 10

Seven Songs for Malcolm X
writer1993
⭐ 10

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
director2013
⭐ 7

Goldie: When Saturn Returns
director1998

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
director1999
⭐ 4.9

Venice 70: Future Reloaded
director2013
⭐ 7

The Last Angel of History
director1996

John On The Void
actor2018

A Touch of the Tar Brush
Role: Himself1991

Four Nocturnes
director2019