John Akomfrah Movies
- 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....
- 1993
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
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The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2008
This Is My Africa
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Interviewees discuss the memories, tastes and experiences that they associate with Africa for a personal vision of the continent.
- 2018
Mimesis: African Soldier
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Commemorateing the millions of African soldiers, labourers and carriers participated in the First World War on the African continent and on the...
- 2018
John On The Void
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Artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah recounts an experience sailing through French Polynesia.
- 2012
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
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A homage to Russian film giant Andrei Tarkovsky, this work integrates excerpts of soundtracks from Tarkovsky’s films with a slideshow of...
- 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
Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster
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A short film made for Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded (2013).
- 2017
Precarity
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A three-channel video installation, working with the themes of risk, hybridity and the unfathomable to explore the city of New Orleans through the...
- 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...
- 1999
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile. This video profiles...
- 2014
Transfigured Night
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Transfigured Night draws its inspiration from two sources of the same name – Verklärte Nacht – the German poem by Richard Dehmel...
- 2014
Numen
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A fictional journey of post-apocalyptic survival.
- 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....
- 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...