John Akomfrah Movies

  • 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
  • 1993
    Seven Songs for Malcolm X

    Seven Songs for Malcolm X

    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...

    Seven Songs for Malcolm X
  • 2021
    Five Murmurations

    Five Murmurations

    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...

    Five Murmurations
  • 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
  • 2021
    Triptych

    Triptych

    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...

    Triptych
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2008
    This Is My Africa

    This Is My Africa

    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.

    This Is My Africa
  • 2018
    Mimesis: African Soldier

    Mimesis: African Soldier

    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...

    Mimesis: African Soldier
  • 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
    At the Graveside of Tarkovsky

    At the Graveside of Tarkovsky

    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...

    At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
  • 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
    Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster

    Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster

    Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster

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    A short film made for Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded (2013).

    Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster
  • 2017
    Precarity

    Precarity

    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...

    Precarity
  • 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
  • 1999
    The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

    The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

    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...

    The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
  • 2014
    Transfigured Night

    Transfigured Night

    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...

    Transfigured Night
  • 2014
    Numen

    Numen

    Numen

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    A fictional journey of post-apocalyptic survival.

    Numen
  • 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
  • 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