John Akomfrah

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1957-05-04 (67 years old)

Place of Birth Accra, Ghana

John Akomfrah

Biography

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".

Known For

Director

2023
Becoming Wind

as Director

2023
Arcadia

as Director

2021
Triptych

as Director

2021
Five Murmurations

as Director

2019
Four Nocturnes

as Director

2018
2017
Purple

as Director

2017
Precarity

as Director

2016
The Airport

as Director

2016
Tropikos

as Director

2016
Acts Of Faith

as Director

2015
Vertigo Sea

as Director

2014
Numen

as Director

2014
Transfigured Night

as Director

2013
2013
The March

as Director

2012
Peripeteia

as Director

2012
Hauntologies

as Director

2010
The Nine Muses

as Director

2010
Mnemosyne

as Director

2009
Genome Chronicles

as Director

2001
Digitopia

as Director

1999
Riot

as Director

1998
Speak Like a Child

as Director

1998
The Call of Mist

as Director

1996
Memory Room 451

as Director

1991
Who Needs a Heart

as Director

1991
1988
Testament

as Director

1986
Handsworth Songs

as Director

Writer

2010
The Nine Muses

as Writer

2010
Mnemosyne

as Writer

2001
Digitopia

as Writer

1991
1988
Testament

as Writer

Actor

Camera

1986
Handsworth Songs

as Additional Photography

Editor