John Akomfrah Movies
- 1992
Black and White in Colour
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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....
- 2013
The Stuart Hall Project
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A person’s culture is something that is often described as fixed or defined and rooted in a particular region, nation, or state. Stuart Hall,...
- 2021
Five Murmurations
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Three-screen black and white video installation exploring how individuals and communities have been coping with the pandemic, the radical...
- 1991
A Touch of the Tar Brush
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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...
- 2010
Mnemosyne
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Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the...
- 1999
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile. This video profiles...
- 1996
Memory Room 451
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The subject matter of Memory Room 451 is the cultural and historical significance of 20th-century hairstyles – the Afro, the conk, dreadlocks...
- 2014
Transfigured Night
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Transfigured Night draws its inspiration from two sources of the same name – Verklärte Nacht – the German poem by Richard Dehmel...
- 2012
Hauntologies
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- 2003
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
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Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz is a portrait of one musician’s lifetime achievement. In a career spanning 60 years as pianist and...
- 2016
The Airport
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The Airport, a three-screen film installation conceived as a meditation on Greek history and its recent financial crisis, set around the landscapes...
- 2013
The Unfinished Conversation
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Through juxtaposing and layering archival footage with text, music and photographs, The Unfinished Conversation crosses the memory landscape of...
- 1984
Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
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Produced while the Black Audio Film Collective were undergraduates, Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality is the second of a two-part 35mm...
- 2009
Genome Chronicles
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The Genome Chronicles is an epic investigation, unbounded by traditional notions of time, into the relationship between image and memory. Fusing...
- 1998
The Call of Mist
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A vivid meditation on cloning, death, memory and media set on an remote Scottish island. A short film on the millennium’s end commissioned by...
- 2015
Vertigo Sea
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Vertigo Sea is a three-screen film installation that explores what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls 'the sublime seas'. Fusing archival material, readings...
- 2013
Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster
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A short film made for Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded (2013).
- 2018
Mimesis: African Soldier
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Commemorateing the millions of African soldiers, labourers and carriers participated in the First World War on the African continent and on the...
- 2021
Triptych
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Triptych (2020) is a homage to the the radical, political album, ‘We Insist!’ (1960) by the jazz musician Max Roach – the ideas of...
- 2019
Four Nocturnes
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Commissioned for the inaugural Ghana pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Four Nocturnes (2019) forms the third part of a trilogy of films including the...