John Akomfrah (b. 1957)

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".

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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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