John Akomfrah Movies

  • 2023
    Arcadia

    Arcadia

    Arcadia

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    Tackling the ecological implications of settler colonialism, extractive capitalism and the extinction of microorganisms, this multi-screen...

    Arcadia
  • 1988
    Testament

    Testament

    Testament

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    Focuses on the Kwame Nkrumah era in Ghanaian history and paints a portrait of a female African government minister forced into exile after a coup...

    Testament
  • 1996
    Memory Room 451

    Memory Room 451

    Memory Room 451

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    The subject matter of Memory Room 451 is the cultural and historical significance of 20th-century hairstyles – the Afro, the conk, dreadlocks...

    Memory Room 451
  • 2019
    Four Nocturnes

    Four Nocturnes

    Four Nocturnes

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    Commissioned for the inaugural Ghana pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Four Nocturnes (2019) forms the third part of a trilogy of films including the...

    Four Nocturnes
  • 1992
    Black and White in Colour

    Black and White in Colour

    Black and White in Colour

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    A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992....

    Black and White in Colour
  • 1991
    A Touch of the Tar Brush

    A Touch of the Tar Brush

    A Touch of the Tar Brush

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    Black filmmaker John Akomfrah believes that, for too long, being English has meant being white. In an attempt to show Englishness from the point of...

    A Touch of the Tar Brush
  • 2016
    Acts Of Faith

    Acts Of Faith

    Acts Of Faith

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    Auto Da Fé is a diptych that looks at migration through the lens of religious persecution. Presented as a poetic period drama, the film...

    Acts Of Faith
  • 2023
    Becoming Wind

    Becoming Wind

    Becoming Wind

    02023HD

    In his new work on five screens, "Becoming Wind", Akomfrah creates an allegorical representation of the Garden of Eden and its disappearance. In...

    Becoming Wind
  • 2021
    Triptych

    Triptych

    Triptych

    02021HD

    Triptych (2020) is a homage to the the radical, political album, ‘We Insist!’ (1960) by the jazz musician Max Roach – the ideas of...

    Triptych
  • 2016
    The Airport

    The Airport

    The Airport

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    The Airport, a three-screen film installation conceived as a meditation on Greek history and its recent financial crisis, set around the landscapes...

    The Airport
  • 2010
    Mnemosyne

    Mnemosyne

    Mnemosyne

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    Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the...

    Mnemosyne
  • 1999
    Riot

    Riot

    Riot

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    John Akomfrah’s seminal Riot traces the riots in Liverpool during July 1981 in a climate of economic recession under Thatcher’s regime....

    Riot
  • 2003
    Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz

    Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz

    Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz

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    Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz is a portrait of one musician’s lifetime achievement. In a career spanning 60 years as pianist and...

    Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
  • 2015
    Vertigo Sea

    Vertigo Sea

    Vertigo Sea

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    Vertigo Sea is a three-screen film installation that explores what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls 'the sublime seas'. Fusing archival material, readings...

    Vertigo Sea
  • 2016
    Tropikos

    Tropikos

    Tropikos

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    Tropikos transforms the landscape of the Tamar Valley in the South West of England into a sixteenth-century port of exploration on the African...

    Tropikos
  • 2013
    The Unfinished Conversation

    The Unfinished Conversation

    The Unfinished Conversation

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    Through juxtaposing and layering archival footage with text, music and photographs, The Unfinished Conversation crosses the memory landscape of...

    The Unfinished Conversation
  • 2021
    Five Murmurations

    Five Murmurations

    Five Murmurations

    02021HD

    Three-screen black and white video installation exploring how individuals and communities have been coping with the pandemic, the radical...

    Five Murmurations
  • 2018
    John On The Void

    John On The Void

    John On The Void

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    Artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah recounts an experience sailing through French Polynesia.

    John On The Void
  • 2012
    Hauntologies

    Hauntologies

    Hauntologies

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    Hauntologies
  • 1998
    The Call of Mist

    The Call of Mist

    The Call of Mist

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    A vivid meditation on cloning, death, memory and media set on an remote Scottish island. A short film on the millennium’s end commissioned by...

    The Call of Mist