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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
No Image
Hauntologies
director2012
Becoming Wind
director2023
⭐ 5
No Image
Digitopia
writer2001
⭐ 4.5
Memory Room 451
director1996
No Image
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
No Image
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
No Image
Genome Chronicles
director2009
Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
director1984
Precarity
director2017
No Image
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