John Akomfrah Movies

  • 1992
    Black and White in Colour

    Black and White in Colour

    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....

    Black and White in Colour
  • 2013
    The Stuart Hall Project

    The Stuart Hall Project

    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,...

    The Stuart Hall Project
  • 2021
    Five Murmurations

    Five Murmurations

    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...

    Five Murmurations
  • 1991
    A Touch of the Tar Brush

    A Touch of the Tar Brush

    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...

    A Touch of the Tar Brush
  • 2010
    Mnemosyne

    Mnemosyne

    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...

    Mnemosyne
  • 1999
    The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

    The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

    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...

    The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
  • 1996
    Memory Room 451

    Memory Room 451

    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...

    Memory Room 451
  • 2014
    Transfigured Night

    Transfigured Night

    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...

    Transfigured Night
  • 2012
    Hauntologies

    Hauntologies

    Hauntologies

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    Hauntologies
  • 2003
    Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz

    Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz

    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...

    Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
  • 2016
    The Airport

    The Airport

    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...

    The Airport
  • 2013
    The Unfinished Conversation

    The Unfinished Conversation

    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...

    The Unfinished Conversation
  • 1984
    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality

    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality

    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...

    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
  • 2009
    Genome Chronicles

    Genome Chronicles

    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...

    Genome Chronicles
  • 1998
    The Call of Mist

    The Call of Mist

    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...

    The Call of Mist
  • 2015
    Vertigo Sea

    Vertigo Sea

    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...

    Vertigo Sea
  • 2013
    Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster

    Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster

    Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster

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

    Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster
  • 2018
    Mimesis: African Soldier

    Mimesis: African Soldier

    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...

    Mimesis: African Soldier
  • 2021
    Triptych

    Triptych

    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...

    Triptych
  • 2019
    Four Nocturnes

    Four Nocturnes

    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...

    Four Nocturnes

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