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".
Full Filmography
Directing
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
(1983)
Director
Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
(1984)
Director
Handsworth Songs
(1986)
Director
Testament
(1988)
Director
Who Needs a Heart
(1991)
Director
A Touch of the Tar Brush
(1991)
Director
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
(1993)
Director
Memory Room 451
(1996)
Director
The Last Angel of History
(1996)
Director
Speak Like a Child
(1998)
Director
Goldie: When Saturn Returns
(1998)
Director
The Call of Mist
(1998)
Director
Riot
(1999)
Director
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
(1999)
Director
Digitopia
(2001)
Director
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
(2003)
Director
Genome Chronicles
(2009)
Director
The Nine Muses
(2010)
Director
Mnemosyne
(2010)
Director
Peripeteia
(2012)
Director
Hauntologies
(2012)
Director
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
(2012)
Director
The Stuart Hall Project
(2013)
Director
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
(2013)
Director
The March
(2013)
Director
The Unfinished Conversation
(2013)
Director
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
(2013)
Director
Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster
(2013)
Director
Transfigured Night
(2014)
Director
Numen
(2014)
Director
Vertigo Sea
(2015)
Director
The Airport
(2016)
Director
Tropikos
(2016)
Director
Acts Of Faith
(2016)
Director
Purple
(2017)
Director
Precarity
(2017)
Director
Mimesis: African Soldier
(2018)
Director
Four Nocturnes
(2019)
Director
Triptych
(2021)
Director
Five Murmurations
(2021)
Director
Becoming Wind
(2023)
Director
Arcadia
(2023)
Director
Acting
A Touch of the Tar Brush
(1991)
Himself
Black and White in Colour
(1992)
Self
This Is My Africa
(2008)
Self
John On The Void
(2018)
Scala!!!
(2024)
Self
Camera
Writing
Testament
(1988)
Writer
Who Needs a Heart
(1991)
Writer
A Touch of the Tar Brush
(1991)
Writer
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
(1993)
Writer
Digitopia
(2001)
Writer
The Nine Muses
(2010)
Writer
Mnemosyne
(2010)
Writer
Editing