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John Akomfrah

Director, Writer, Producer, Actor

May 4, 1957 (69 years)
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

  • Handsworth Songs
    Handsworth Songs
  • The Stuart Hall Project
    The Stuart Hall Project
  • The Last Angel of History
    The Last Angel of History
  • The Nine Muses
    The Nine Muses
  • Speak Like a Child
    Speak Like a Child
  • The March
    The March
  • Seven Songs for Malcolm X
    Seven Songs for Malcolm X
  • Testament
    Testament
  • Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
    Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
  • Docs interdits
    Docs interdits
    6 Seasons

Filmography

2013
The Stuart Hall Project
2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
The March
2011
Docs interdits
2010
The Nine Muses
1998
Speak Like a Child
1996
The Last Angel of History
1993
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1988
Testament
1986
Handsworth Songs

2023
Scala!!! or, The Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits · as Self
2001
art21 · as Self
1980
Newsnight · as Self

2010
The Nine Muses
1993
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1988
Testament

2025
The Eyes of Ghana · as Executive Producer

2025
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks