John Akomfrah Movies
- 2012
Peripeteia
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Peripeteia (Greek: περιπέτεια; a reversal of circumstances, or turning point) is a moving...
- 2009
Genome Chronicles
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The Genome Chronicles is an epic investigation, unbounded by traditional notions of time, into the relationship between image and memory. Fusing...
- 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....
- 1991
Who Needs a Heart
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The tumultuous life of the controversial 1960s black revolutionary (and convicted murderer) Michael X is illustrated by a kaleidoscopic melding of...
- 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...
- 1984
Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
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Produced while the Black Audio Film Collective were undergraduates, Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality is the second of a two-part 35mm...
- 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...
- 1983
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
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Produced while the Black Audio Film Collective were undergraduates, Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire is the first of a two-part 35mm slide-tape...