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".
2025Turner: The Secret SketchbooksMovie
2024Listening All Night to the RainMovieDirector
2024Scala!!!Movieas Self2023Becoming WindMovieDirector
2021TriptychMovieDirector
2019Four NocturnesMovieDirector
2018John On The VoidMovie
2018Mimesis: African SoldierMovieDirector
2017PrecarityMovieDirector
2017PurpleMovieDirector
2016Acts Of FaithMovieDirector
2016The AirportMovieDirector
2016TropikosMovieDirector2015Vertigo SeaMovieDirector
2014Transfigured NightMovieDirector
2014NumenMovieDirector
2013The Unfinished ConversationMovieDirector
2013Notes for a ReturnMovieThanks
2013Venice 70: Future ReloadedMovieDirector
2013The Stuart Hall ProjectMovieDirector
2013Martin Luther King and the March on WashingtonMovieDirector
2012At the Graveside of TarkovskyMovieDirector
2010The Nine MusesMovieDirector · Writer
2010MnemosyneMovieDirector · Writer
2008This Is My AfricaMovieas Self
2001DigitopiaMovieDirector · Writer
1999The Wonderful World of Louis ArmstrongMovieDirector
1999RiotMovieDirector
1998Speak Like a ChildMovieDirector
1998The Call of MistMovieDirector1998Goldie: When Saturn ReturnsMovieDirector1997Martin Luther King: Days of HopeMovieDirector
1996The Last Angel of HistoryMovieDirector1996Memory Room 451MovieDirector
1993Seven Songs for Malcolm XMovieDirector · Writer
1992Black and White in ColourMovieas Self
1991A Touch of the Tar BrushMovieas Himself · Director · Writer1991Who Needs a HeartMovieDirector · Writer
1990Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali KhanMovieEditorial Consultant1988TestamentMovieDirector · Writer
1986Handsworth SongsMovieDirector · Additional Photography
1984Expeditions 2 – Images of NationalityMovieDirector
1983Expeditions 1 – Signs of EmpireMovieDirector
—The Hour of the DogMovieDirector