John Akomfrah Movies

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...

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

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,...

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

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

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

The Genome Chronicles is an epic investigation, unbounded by traditional notions of time, into the relationship between image and memory. Fusing...

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

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

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

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...

Triptych (2020) is a homage to the the radical, political album, ‘We Insist!’ (1960) by the jazz musician Max Roach – the ideas of...

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

A fictional journey of post-apocalyptic survival.

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

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...

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

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