John Akomfrah

John Akomfrah

Filmography

As Cast

Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks (2025)
Scala!!! (2024)
as Self
John On The Void (2018)
This Is My Africa (2008)
as Self
Black and White in Colour (1992)
as Self
A Touch of the Tar Brush (1991)
as Himself

As Crew

Listening All Night to the Rain (2024)
Director
Becoming Wind (2023)
Director
Arcadia (2023)
Director
Triptych (2021)
Director
Five Murmurations (2021)
Director
Four Nocturnes (2019)
Director
Mimesis: African Soldier (2018)
Director
Purple (2017)
Director
Precarity (2017)
Director
The Airport (2016)
Director
Acts Of Faith (2016)
Director
Tropikos (2016)
Director
Vertigo Sea (2015)
Director
Numen (2014)
Director
Transfigured Night (2014)
Director
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington (2013)
Director
The Stuart Hall Project (2013)
Director
Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
Director
The March (2013)
Director
The Unfinished Conversation (2013)
Director
Notes for a Return (2013)
Thanks
Peripeteia (2012)
Director
Hauntologies (2012)
Director
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky (2012)
Director
The Nine Muses (2010)
Writer, Director
Mnemosyne (2010)
Writer, Director
Genome Chronicles (2009)
Director
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz (2003)
Director
Digitopia (2001)
Director, Writer
Riot (1999)
Director
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong (1999)
Director
Speak Like a Child (1998)
Director
Goldie: When Saturn Returns (1998)
Director
The Call of Mist (1998)
Director
Martin Luther King: Days of Hope (1997)
Director
The Last Angel of History (1996)
Director
Memory Room 451 (1996)
Director
Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)
Director, Writer
Who Needs a Heart (1991)
Director, Writer
A Touch of the Tar Brush (1991)
Director, Writer
Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1990)
Editorial Consultant
Testament (1988)
Director, Writer
Handsworth Songs (1986)
Director, Additional Photography
Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality (1984)
Director
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire (1983)
Director
The Hour of the Dog
Director