John Akomfrah Movies
- 2023
Arcadia
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Tackling the ecological implications of settler colonialism, extractive capitalism and the extinction of microorganisms, this multi-screen...
- 1988
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...
- 1996
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...
- 2019
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...
- 1992
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....
- 1991
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...
- 2016
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...
- 2023
Becoming Wind
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In his new work on five screens, "Becoming Wind", Akomfrah creates an allegorical representation of the Garden of Eden and its disappearance. In...
- 2021
Triptych
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Triptych (2020) is a homage to the the radical, political album, ‘We Insist!’ (1960) by the jazz musician Max Roach – the ideas of...
- 2016
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...
- 2010
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...
- 1999
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....
- 2003
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...
- 2015
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...
- 2016
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...
- 2013
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...
- 2021
Five Murmurations
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Three-screen black and white video installation exploring how individuals and communities have been coping with the pandemic, the radical...
- 2018
John On The Void
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Artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah recounts an experience sailing through French Polynesia.
- 2012
Hauntologies
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- 1998
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...