John Akomfrah

ActorDirectorWriterEditorCinematographer May 4 (age 68) Accra, Ghana 1983–2025 (42 year career)

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Biography

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

Film

Scala!!!

Self

Film

The Last Angel of History

Director

Film

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Director

Film

Handsworth Songs

Additional Photography

Film

The Nine Muses

Director

Film

Acts Of Faith

Director

Film

The Stuart Hall Project

Director

Film

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

Director

Filmography

Acting (6)

Movies (6)

Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks

Scala!!!

as Self

John On The Void

This Is My Africa

as Self

Black and White in Colour

1992

as Self

A Touch of the Tar Brush

1991

as Himself

Crew (51)

Movies (51)

Listening All Night to the Rain

2024

Director

Becoming Wind

2023

Director

Arcadia

2023

Director

Five Murmurations

2021

Director

Triptych

2021

Director

Four Nocturnes

2019

Director

Mimesis: African Soldier

2018

Director

Purple

2017

Director

Precarity

2017

Director

The Airport

2016

Director

Tropikos

2016

Director

Acts Of Faith

Director

Vertigo Sea

Director

Transfigured Night

Director

Numen

2014

Director

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013

Director

4.9

The Stuart Hall Project

2013

Director

4.6

Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

Director

The March

Director

The Unfinished Conversation

2013

Director

At the Graveside of Tarkovsky

2012

Director

Peripeteia

2012

Director

Hauntologies

2012

Director

The Nine Muses

Director

The Nine Muses

Writer

Mnemosyne

Director

Mnemosyne

2010

Writer

Genome Chronicles

2009

Director

Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz

Director

Digitopia

Director

Digitopia

Writer

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

1999

Director

Riot

1999

Director

Goldie: When Saturn Returns

1998

Director

7.0

The Call of Mist

1998

Director

Speak Like a Child

1998

Director

3.0

The Last Angel of History

Director

Memory Room 451

Director

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

1993

Director

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

1993

Writer

A Touch of the Tar Brush

1991

Director

A Touch of the Tar Brush

1991

Writer

Who Needs a Heart

1991

Director

Who Needs a Heart

1991

Writer

Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

1990

Editorial Consultant

Testament

1988

Director

Testament

1988

Writer

Handsworth Songs

1986

Additional Photography

5.5

Handsworth Songs

1986

Director

5.5

Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality

1984

Director

Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire

1983

Director