John Akomfrah
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-05-04 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Accra, Ghana
John Akomfrah
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
Acting
(2024)
Scala!!!
as Self
(2018)
(2008)
This Is My Africa
as Self
(1992)
Black and White in Colour
as Self
(1991)
A Touch of the Tar Brush
as Himself
Crew
(2024)
Listening All Night To The Rain
Director
(2023)
Becoming Wind
Director
(2023)
Arcadia
Director
(2021)
Triptych
Director
(2021)
Five Murmurations
Director
(2019)
Four Nocturnes
Director
(2018)
Mimesis: African Soldier
Director
(2017)
Purple
Director
(2017)
Precarity
Director
(2016)
The Airport
Director
(2016)
Acts Of Faith
Director
(2016)
Tropikos
Director
(2015)
Vertigo Sea
Director
(2014)
Numen
Director
(2014)
Transfigured Night
Director
(2013)
(2013)
The Stuart Hall Project
Director
(2013)
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Director
(2013)
The March
Director
(2013)
(2013)
The Unfinished Conversation
Director
(2012)
Peripeteia
Director
(2012)
Hauntologies
Director
(2012)
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
Director
(2010)
The Nine Muses
Writer, Director
(2010)
Mnemosyne
Writer, Director
(2009)
Genome Chronicles
Director
(2003)
(2001)
Digitopia
Director, Writer
(1999)
Riot
Director
(1999)
(1998)
Speak Like a Child
Director
(1998)
Goldie: When Saturn Returns
Director
(1998)
The Call of Mist
Director
(1996)
The Last Angel of History
Director
(1996)
Memory Room 451
Director
(1993)
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Director, Writer
(1991)
Who Needs a Heart
Director, Writer
(1991)
A Touch of the Tar Brush
Director, Writer
(1990)
Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Editorial Consultant
(1988)
Testament
Director, Writer
(1986)
Handsworth Songs
Director, Additional Photography
(1984)
(1983)
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
Director