John Akomfrah Movies

Commissioned for the inaugural Ghana pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Four Nocturnes (2019) forms the third part of a trilogy of films including the...

Commemorateing the millions of African soldiers, labourers and carriers participated in the First World War on the African continent and on the...

Artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah recounts an experience sailing through French Polynesia.

Purple is a six-channel video installation addressing climate change, human communities and the wilderness. At a time when greenhouse gas emissions...

A three-channel video installation, working with the themes of risk, hybridity and the unfathomable to explore the city of New Orleans through the...

Short documentary about Pakistani musician, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948-1997), leading exponent of Sufi devotional qawwali singing.

Tropikos transforms the landscape of the Tamar Valley in the South West of England into a sixteenth-century port of exploration on the African...

The Airport, a three-screen film installation conceived as a meditation on Greek history and its recent financial crisis, set around the landscapes...

A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992....

Transfigured Night draws its inspiration from two sources of the same name – Verklärte Nacht – the German poem by Richard Dehmel...

A short film made for Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded (2013).

A fictional journey of post-apocalyptic survival.

A homage to Russian film giant Andrei Tarkovsky, this work integrates excerpts of soundtracks from Tarkovsky’s films with a slideshow of...

Through juxtaposing and layering archival footage with text, music and photographs, The Unfinished Conversation crosses the memory landscape of...

Focuses on the Kwame Nkrumah era in Ghanaian history and paints a portrait of a female African government minister forced into exile after a coup...

The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in...

Peripeteia (Greek: περιπέτεια; a reversal of circumstances, or turning point) is a moving...

Black filmmaker John Akomfrah believes that, for too long, being English has meant being white. In an attempt to show Englishness from the point of...

Interviewees discuss the memories, tastes and experiences that they associate with Africa for a personal vision of the continent.