John Akomfrah

Person Details

Birthday: 1957-05-04 20:13:13

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth:

Homepage:

Movie Involvements: 52

TV Involvements: 0

Most Famous Work

Average

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

(2013) Director

Average

Handsworth Songs

(1986) Director

Average

The Nine Muses

(2010) Writer

Average

Triptych

(2021) Director

Average

Speak Like a Child

(1998) Director

Average

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

(1993) Writer

Average

The Stuart Hall Project

(2013) Director

Average

Goldie: When Saturn Returns

(1998) Director

Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2024	Self	Scala!!! 2024-01-05 Movie
2018	N/A	John On The Void 2018-12-01 Movie
2008	Self	This Is My Africa 2008-04-01 Movie
1992	Self	Black and White in Colour 1992-06-27 Movie
1991	Himself	A Touch of the Tar Brush 1991-11-12 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Directing

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2023	Director	Becoming Wind 2023-10-31 Movie
2021	Director	Five Murmurations 2021-09-09 Movie
	Director	Triptych 2021-04-13 Movie
2019	Director	Four Nocturnes 2019-05-11 Movie
2018	Director	Mimesis: African Soldier 2018-09-21 Movie
2017	Director	Precarity 2017-10-10 Movie
	Director	Purple 2017-10-06 Movie
2016	Director	Tropikos 2016-01-22 Movie
	Director	Acts Of Faith 2016-01-22 Movie
	Director	The Airport 2016-01-22 Movie
2015	Director	Vertigo Sea 2015-05-09 Movie
2014	Director	Transfigured Night 2014-03-07 Movie
	Director	Numen 2014-01-01 Movie
2013	Director	The Unfinished Conversation 2013-10-26 Movie
	Director	Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster 2013-08-28 Movie
	Director	The March 2013-08-26 Movie
	Director	Venice 70: Future Reloaded 2013-07-31 Movie
	Director	The Stuart Hall Project 2013-01-18 Movie
	Director	Martin Luther King and the March on Washington 2013-01-01 Movie
2012	Director	Peripeteia 2012-10-08 Movie
	Director	At the Graveside of Tarkovsky 2012-10-05 Movie
	Director	Hauntologies 2012-01-02 Movie
2010	Director	The Nine Muses 2010-09-01 Movie
	Director	Mnemosyne 2010-01-18 Movie
2009	Director	Genome Chronicles 2009-07-01 Movie
2003	Director	Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz 2003-01-01 Movie
2001	Director	Digitopia 2001-04-28 Movie
1999	Director	The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong 1999-08-27 Movie
	Director	Riot 1999-01-01 Movie
1998	Director	Speak Like a Child 1998-09-04 Movie
	Director	The Call of Mist 1998-07-07 Movie
	Director	Goldie: When Saturn Returns 1998-01-01 Movie
1996	Director	The Last Angel of History 1996-09-11 Movie
	Director	Memory Room 451 1996-01-01 Movie
1993	Director	Seven Songs for Malcolm X 1993-10-01 Movie
1991	Director	A Touch of the Tar Brush 1991-11-12 Movie
	Director	Who Needs a Heart 1991-01-02 Movie
1988	Director	Testament 1988-01-02 Movie
1986	Director	Handsworth Songs 1986-05-08 Movie
1984	Director	Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality 1984-01-01 Movie
1983	Director	Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire 1983-01-01 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv

Writing

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2010	Writer	The Nine Muses 2010-09-01 Movie
	Writer	Mnemosyne 2010-01-18 Movie
1993	Writer	Seven Songs for Malcolm X 1993-10-01 Movie
1991	Writer	A Touch of the Tar Brush 1991-11-12 Movie
	Writer	Who Needs a Heart 1991-01-02 Movie
1988	Writer	Testament 1988-01-02 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv

Editing

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1990	Editorial Consultant	Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 1990-01-01 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv

Camera

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1986	Additional Photography	Handsworth Songs 1986-05-08 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv

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