John Akomfrah Movies

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

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

Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile. This video profiles...

Vertigo Sea is a three-screen film installation that explores what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls 'the sublime seas'. Fusing archival material, readings...

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

Goldie, the godfather of drum and bass takes us on a roller coaster ride through his frenetic life. A journey that takes us from Wolver Hampton to...

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...

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

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

A fictional journey of post-apocalyptic survival.

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

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...

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

Produced while the Black Audio Film Collective were undergraduates, Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality is the second of a two-part 35mm...

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

A three-channel video installation, working with the themes of risk, hybridity and the unfathomable to explore the city of New Orleans through the...

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

Tropikos transforms the landscape of the Tamar Valley in the South West of England into a sixteenth-century port of exploration on the African...

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