John Akomfrah

Known for: Directing
Born: May 4, 1957, Accra, Ghana
Movies: 49

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".

Upcoming John Akomfrah Movies

The Hour of the Dog

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

5.0

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013

5.9

Handsworth Songs

1986

7.8

Scala!!!

2024

7.0

The Last Angel of History

1996

5.6

The Nine Muses

2010

4.6

The Stuart Hall Project

2013

4.2

Speak Like a Child

1998

8.0

Acts Of Faith

2016

10.0

Black and White in Colour

1992

9.0

Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks

2025

Filmography

2025	Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2024	Scala!!!	Self
2018	John On The Void
2008	This Is My Africa	Self
1992	Black and White in Colour	Self
1991	A Touch of the Tar Brush	Himself

Directing, Writing & Producing

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

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