May 4, 1957 - Accra, Ghana
John Akomfrah, CBE (born 4 May 1957) is a British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".
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| Movie | 1992 | Black and White in Colour | Self | |
| Movie | 2018 | John On The Void | ||
| Movie | 2024 | Scala!!! | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | This Is My Africa | Self | |
| Movie | 1991 | A Touch of the Tar Brush | Himself |
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| Movie | 2013 | Martin Luther King and the March on Washington | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2021 | Triptych | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2019 | Four Nocturnes | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2010 | The Nine Muses | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 2010 | The Nine Muses | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1986 | Handsworth Songs | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2013 | The Stuart Hall Project | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2010 | Mnemosyne | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 2010 | Mnemosyne | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1998 | Speak Like a Child | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2013 | Venice 70: Future Reloaded | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2012 | Peripeteia | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2013 | The March | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2003 | Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1993 | Seven Songs for Malcolm X | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1996 | The Last Angel of History | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2014 | Numen | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2001 | Digitopia | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1988 | Testament | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1991 | Who Needs a Heart | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2021 | Five Murmurations | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1988 | Testament | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 2018 | Mimesis: African Soldier | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2013 | Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2012 | Hauntologies | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2023 | Becoming Wind | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2001 | Digitopia | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1996 | Memory Room 451 | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2023 | Arcadia | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2015 | Vertigo Sea | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1986 | Handsworth Songs | Additional Photography | Camera |
| Movie | 2016 | The Airport | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2016 | Acts Of Faith | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2016 | Tropikos | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2013 | The Unfinished Conversation | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2012 | At the Graveside of Tarkovsky | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1993 | Seven Songs for Malcolm X | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 2017 | Purple | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1999 | Riot | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2024 | Listening All Night To The Rain | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1998 | Goldie: When Saturn Returns | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2014 | Transfigured Night | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1983 | Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1990 | Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Editorial Consultant | Editing |
| Movie | 1991 | Who Needs a Heart | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1991 | A Touch of the Tar Brush | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1991 | A Touch of the Tar Brush | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1999 | The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2009 | Genome Chronicles | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1998 | The Call of Mist | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1984 | Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2017 | Precarity | Director | Directing |
