John Akomfrah Movies

Listening All Night To The Rain continues John Akomfrah’s abiding interest in post-colonialism, ecology and the politics of aesthetics with a...

The March is the feature documentary narrated by Denzel Washington about the renowned and historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

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

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...

Drama about a man who lives in an analogue world but seeks to fulfil his desires in a digital world.

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

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,...

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

Tackling the ecological implications of settler colonialism, extractive capitalism and the extinction of microorganisms, this multi-screen...

Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the...

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

Three-screen black and white video installation exploring how individuals and communities have been coping with the pandemic, the radical...

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

Auto Da Fé is a diptych that looks at migration through the lens of religious persecution. Presented as a poetic period drama, the film...

Produced while the Black Audio Film Collective were undergraduates, Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire is the first of a two-part 35mm slide-tape...

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

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...

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

The subject matter of Memory Room 451 is the cultural and historical significance of 20th-century hairstyles – the Afro, the conk, dreadlocks...