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John Akomfrah

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".

Et billede af John Akomfrah

Directing

1983

[ ] Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire (Director)

1984

[ ] Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality (Director)

1986

[ ] Handsworth Songs (Director)

1988

[ ] Testament (Director)

1991

[ ] Who Needs a Heart (Director)
[ ] A Touch of the Tar Brush (Director)

1993

[ ] Seven Songs for Malcolm X (Director)

1996

[ ] The Last Angel of History (Director)
[ ] Memory Room 451 (Director)

1998

[ ] Speak Like a Child (Director)
[ ] Goldie: When Saturn Returns (Director)
[ ] The Call of Mist (Director)

1999

[ ] Riot (Director)
[ ] The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong (Director)

2001

[ ] Digitopia (Director)

2003

[ ] Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz (Director)

2009

[ ] Genome Chronicles (Director)

2010

[ ] The Nine Muses (Director)
[ ] Mnemosyne (Director)

2012

[ ] Peripeteia (Director)
[ ] Hauntologies (Director)
[ ] At the Graveside of Tarkovsky (Director)

2013

[ ] Martin Luther King and the March on Washington (Director)
[ ] The Stuart Hall Project (Director)
[ ] Venice 70: Future Reloaded (Director)
[ ] The March (Director)
[ ] The Unfinished Conversation (Director)

2014

[ ] Numen (Director)
[ ] Transfigured Night (Director)

2015

[ ] Vertigo Sea (Director)

2016

[ ] The Airport (Director)
[ ] Tropikos (Director)
[ ] Acts Of Faith (Director)

2017

[ ] Purple (Director)
[ ] Precarity (Director)

2018

[ ] Mimesis: African Soldier (Director)

2019

[ ] Four Nocturnes (Director)

2021

[ ] Triptych (Director)
[ ] Five Murmurations (Director)

2023

[ ] Becoming Wind (Director)
[ ] Arcadia (Director)

2024

[ ] Listening All Night to the Rain (Director)

Writing

1988

[ ] Testament (Writer)

1991

[ ] Who Needs a Heart (Writer)
[ ] A Touch of the Tar Brush (Writer)

1993

[ ] Seven Songs for Malcolm X (Writer)

2001

[ ] Digitopia (Writer)

2010

[ ] The Nine Muses (Writer)
[ ] Mnemosyne (Writer)

Camera

1986

[ ] Handsworth Songs (Additional Photography)

Editing

1990

[ ] Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Editorial Consultant)

Actor

1991

[ ] A Touch of the Tar Brush (Himself)

1992

[ ] Black and White in Colour (Self)

2008

[ ] This Is My Africa (Self)

2018

[ ] John On The Void (????)

2024

[ ] Scala!!! (Self)

2025

[ ] Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks (????)