John Akomfrah
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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".
Known for
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Handsworth Songs (1986)
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Riot (1999)
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
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Acts Of Faith (2016)
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Transfigured Night (2014)
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Becoming Wind (2023)
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Testament (1988)
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Purple (2017)
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The March (2013)
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Tropikos (2016)
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Four Nocturnes (2019)
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Speak Like a Child (1998)
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Five Murmurations (2021)
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Martin Luther King and the March on Washington (2013)
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Mnemosyne (2010)
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Triptych (2021)
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Peripeteia (2012)
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Arcadia (2023)
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Genome Chronicles (2009)
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Precarity (2017)
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Vertigo Sea (2015)
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Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)
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Hauntologies (2012)
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Numen (2014)
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The Airport (2016)
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Mimesis: African Soldier (2018)
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Martin Luther King: Days of Hope (1997)
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Who Needs a Heart (1991)
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The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong (1999)
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The Last Angel of History (1996)
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At the Graveside of Tarkovsky (2012)
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The Call of Mist (1998)
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The Nine Muses (2010)
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Memory Room 451 (1996)
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Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz (2003)
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The Unfinished Conversation (2013)
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Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire (1983)
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Listening All Night to the Rain (2024)
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The Hour of the Dog (—)
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Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality (1984)
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A Touch of the Tar Brush (1991)
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Goldie: When Saturn Returns (1998)
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The Stuart Hall Project (2013)
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Digitopia (2001)
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