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".

Directed

1. Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013) — Director
2. Handsworth Songs (1986) — Director
3. The March (2013) — Director
4. The Last Angel of History (1996) — Director
5. The Nine Muses (2010) — Director
6. The Stuart Hall Project (2013) — Director
7. Speak Like a Child (1998) — Director
8. Digitopia (2001) — Director
9. Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz (2003) — Director
10. Acts Of Faith (2016) — Director
11. Martin Luther King and the March on Washington (2013) — Director
12. Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993) — Director
13. Testament (1988) — Director
14. Who Needs a Heart (1991) — Director
15. Memory Room 451 (1996) — Director
16. Vertigo Sea (2015) — Director
17. Riot (1999) — Director
18. Goldie: When Saturn Returns (1998) — Director
19. Triptych (2021) — Director
20. Four Nocturnes (2019) — Director
21. Mnemosyne (2010) — Director
22. Peripeteia (2012) — Director
23. Numen (2014) — Director
24. Five Murmurations (2021) — Director
25. Mimesis: African Soldier (2018) — Director
26. Hauntologies (2012) — Director
27. Becoming Wind (2023) — Director
28. Arcadia (2023) — Director
29. The Airport (2016) — Director
30. Tropikos (2016) — Director
31. The Unfinished Conversation (2013) — Director
32. At the Graveside of Tarkovsky (2012) — Director
33. Purple (2017) — Director
34. Listening All Night to the Rain (2024) — Director
35. Transfigured Night (2014) — Director
36. Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire (1983) — Director
37. A Touch of the Tar Brush (1991) — Director
38. The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong (1999) — Director
39. Genome Chronicles (2009) — Director
40. The Call of Mist (1998) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Scala!!! (2024) — Self
2. Black and White in Colour (1992) — Self
3. Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks (2025)
4. John On The Void (2018)
5. This Is My Africa (2008) — Self
6. A Touch of the Tar Brush (1991) — Himself