A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Accra, Ghana
Born:
May 4, 1957
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".
Additional Photography:
1986 Handsworth Songs
Director:
1983 Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
1984 Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
1986 Handsworth Songs
1988 Testament
1991 A Touch of the Tar Brush
1991 Who Needs a Heart
1993 Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1996 Memory Room 451
1996 The Last Angel of History
1998 Goldie: When Saturn Returns
1998 Speak Like a Child
1998 The Call of Mist
1999 Riot
1999 The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
2001 Digitopia
2003 Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
2009 Genome Chronicles
2010 Mnemosyne
2010 The Nine Muses
2012 At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
2012 Hauntologies
2012 Peripeteia
2013 Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013 The March
2013 The Stuart Hall Project
2013 The Unfinished Conversation
2013 Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster
2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2014 Numen
2014 Transfigured Night
2015 Vertigo Sea
2016 Acts Of Faith
2016 The Airport
2016 Tropikos
2017 Precarity
2017 Purple
2018 Mimesis: African Soldier
2019 Four Nocturnes
2021 Five Murmurations
2021 Triptych
2023 Arcadia
2023 Becoming Wind
2024 Listening All Night To The Rain
Editorial Consultant:
1983 Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
1984 Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
1986 Handsworth Songs
1988 Testament
1990 Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1991 A Touch of the Tar Brush
1991 Who Needs a Heart
1993 Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1996 Memory Room 451
1996 The Last Angel of History
1998 Goldie: When Saturn Returns
1998 Speak Like a Child
1998 The Call of Mist
1999 Riot
1999 The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
2001 Digitopia
2003 Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
2009 Genome Chronicles
2010 Mnemosyne
2010 The Nine Muses
2012 At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
2012 Hauntologies
2012 Peripeteia
2013 Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013 The March
2013 The Stuart Hall Project
2013 The Unfinished Conversation
2013 Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster
2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2014 Numen
2014 Transfigured Night
2015 Vertigo Sea
2016 Acts Of Faith
2016 The Airport
2016 Tropikos
2017 Precarity
2017 Purple
2018 Mimesis: African Soldier
2019 Four Nocturnes
2021 Five Murmurations
2021 Triptych
2023 Arcadia
2023 Becoming Wind
2024 Listening All Night To The Rain
Writer:
1983 Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
1984 Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
1986 Handsworth Songs
1988 Testament
1990 Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1991 A Touch of the Tar Brush
1991 Who Needs a Heart
1993 Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1996 Memory Room 451
1996 The Last Angel of History
1998 Goldie: When Saturn Returns
1998 Speak Like a Child
1998 The Call of Mist
1999 Riot
1999 The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
2001 Digitopia
2003 Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
2009 Genome Chronicles
2010 Mnemosyne
2010 The Nine Muses
2012 At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
2012 Hauntologies
2012 Peripeteia
2013 Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013 The March
2013 The Stuart Hall Project
2013 The Unfinished Conversation
2013 Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster
2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2014 Numen
2014 Transfigured Night
2015 Vertigo Sea
2016 Acts Of Faith
2016 The Airport
2016 Tropikos
2017 Precarity
2017 Purple
2018 Mimesis: African Soldier
2019 Four Nocturnes
2021 Five Murmurations
2021 Triptych
2023 Arcadia
2023 Becoming Wind
2024 Listening All Night To The Rain
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