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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".

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Known For

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