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John Akomfrah

Director, Writer, ActorBorn May 4, 1957 (68 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
  • The Stuart Hall Project
  • The Nine Muses
  • The Last Angel of History
  • Seven Songs for Malcolm X
  • Speak Like a Child
  • The March
  • Testament
  • Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
  • Docs interdits

John Akomfrah Filmography

2013
The Stuart Hall Project
2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
The March
2011
Docs interdits (TV Series)
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
1980
Newsnight (TV Series) · as Self

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

2025
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks

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