John Akomfrah
1957 (69) • Directing
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".
Known For
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
50%
Director
2013
Handsworth Songs
59%
Director
1986
The March
48%
Director
2013
The Last Angel of History
70%
Director
1996
The Nine Muses
56%
Director
2010
The Stuart Hall Project
46%
Director
2013
Speak Like a Child
43%
Director
1998
Digitopia
50%
Director
2001
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
90%
2025
Listening All Night to the Rain
Director
2024
Scala!!!
78%
Self
2024
Arcadia
Director
2023
Becoming Wind
Director
2023
Five Murmurations
Director
2021
Triptych
Director
2021
Four Nocturnes
Director
2019
John On The Void
2018
Mimesis: African Soldier
Director
2018
Precarity
Director
2017
Purple
Director
2017
The Airport
Director
2016
Tropikos
Director
2016
Acts Of Faith
80%
Director
2016
Vertigo Sea
80%
Director
2015
Transfigured Night
Director
2014
Numen
Director
2014
The Unfinished Conversation
Director
2013
Notes for a Return
Thanks
2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
50%
Director
2013
The March
48%
Director
2013
The Stuart Hall Project
46%
Director
2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
100%
Director
2013
Peripeteia
Director
2012
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
Director
2012
Hauntologies
Director
2012
The Nine Muses
56%
Director
2010