John Akomfrah

John Akomfrah

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

04/05/1957

Age

68 years old

Place of Birth

Accra, Ghana

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".

Filmography

Crew

2023

Arcadia

as Director

2023

Becoming Wind

as Director

2021

Five Murmurations

as Director

2021

Triptych

as Director

2019

Four Nocturnes

as Director

2017

Precarity

as Director

2017

Purple

as Director

2016

The Airport

as Director

2016

Acts Of Faith

as Director

2016

Tropikos

as Director

2015

Vertigo Sea

as Director

2014

Transfigured Night

as Director

2014

Numen

as Director

2013

The March

as Director

2012

Peripeteia

as Director

2012

Hauntologies

as Director

2010

The Nine Muses

as Director

2010

The Nine Muses

as Writer

2010

Mnemosyne

as Director

2010

Mnemosyne

as Writer

2009

Genome Chronicles

as Director

2001

Digitopia

as Director

2001

Digitopia

as Writer

1999

Riot

as Director

1998

Speak Like a Child

as Director

1998

The Call of Mist

as Director

1996

Memory Room 451

as Director

1991

Who Needs a Heart

as Director

1991

Who Needs a Heart

as Writer

1988

Testament

as Director

1988

Testament

as Writer

1986

Handsworth Songs

as Director

1986

Handsworth Songs

as Additional Photography