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John Akomfrah

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".

On screen

  • Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
  • Scala!!!
  • John On The Void
  • This Is My Africa
  • Black and White in Colour
  • A Touch of the Tar Brush

Behind the camera

  • Listening All Night to the Rain
  • Becoming Wind
  • Triptych
  • Four Nocturnes
  • Mimesis: African Soldier
  • Purple
  • Precarity
  • The Airport
  • Tropikos
  • Acts Of Faith
  • Vertigo Sea
  • Numen
  • Transfigured Night
  • Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
  • The Stuart Hall Project
  • Venice 70: Future Reloaded
  • The Unfinished Conversation
  • At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
  • The Nine Muses
  • Mnemosyne
  • Riot
  • The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
  • Speak Like a Child
  • Goldie: When Saturn Returns
  • The Call of Mist
  • Martin Luther King: Days of Hope
  • The Last Angel of History
  • Memory Room 451
  • Seven Songs for Malcolm X
  • Who Needs a Heart
  • A Touch of the Tar Brush
  • Testament
  • Handsworth Songs
  • Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
  • Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
  • The Hour of the Dog

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