John Akomfrah
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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
Credits
Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
Director
The Stuart Hall Project (2013)
Director
Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)
Director
Speak Like a Child (1998)
Director
Handsworth Songs (1986)
Director
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington (2013)
Director
Who Needs a Heart (1991)
Director
Purple (2017)
Director
Transfigured Night (2014)
Director
Testament (1988)
Director
The Last Angel of History (1996)
Director
Riot (1999)
Director
Martin Luther King: Days of Hope (1997)
Director
Goldie: When Saturn Returns (1998)
Director
Becoming Wind (2023)
Director
Mnemosyne (2010)
Director
Five Murmurations (2021)
Director
Precarity (2017)
Director
Genome Chronicles (2009)
Director
The March (2013)
Director
Peripeteia (2012)
Director
The Airport (2016)
Director
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong (1999)
Director
Four Nocturnes (2019)
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Vertigo Sea (2015)
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Arcadia (2023)
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Tropikos (2016)
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Hauntologies (2012)
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Triptych (2021)
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Acts Of Faith (2016)
Director
The Call of Mist (1998)
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Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire (1983)
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Listening All Night to the Rain (2024)
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Numen (2014)
Director
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky (2012)
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The Hour of the Dog (—)
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A Touch of the Tar Brush (1991)
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Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz (2003)
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The Nine Muses (2010)
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Mimesis: African Soldier (2018)
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Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality (1984)
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Digitopia (2001)
Director
Memory Room 451 (1996)
Director
The Unfinished Conversation (2013)
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