John Akomfrah

Realizado para o 70º aniversário do Festival de Cinema de Veneza, setenta cineastas realizaram um curta-metragem entre 60 e 90 segundos sobre sua i...

28 de ago. de 2013

An examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly progressing...

11 de set. de 1996

The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconogr...

01 de out. de 1993

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, one o...

18 de jan. de 2013

The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving arc...

08 de mai. de 1986

Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubl...

04 de set. de 1998

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 ...

01 de jan. de 1998

Documentary commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington, a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement in the Un...

01 de jan. de 2013

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

01 de set. de 2010

The tumultuous life of the controversial 1960s black revolutionary (and convicted murderer) Michael X is illustrated by a kaleidoscopic melding of ...

02 de jan. de 1991

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

26 de ago. de 2013

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

27 de ago. de 1999

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

01 de jan. de 1990

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...

12 de nov. de 1991

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

05 de out. de 2012

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

09 de set. de 2021

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

26 de out. de 2013

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 d...

16 de mai. de 1988

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

22 de jan. de 2016

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

11 de mai. de 2019

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

13 de abr. de 2021

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

18 de jan. de 2010

John Akomfrah’s seminal Riot traces the riots in Liverpool during July 1981 in a climate of economic recession under Thatcher’s regime. Akomfrah ca...

01 de jan. de 1999

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

09 de mai. de 2015

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

21 de set. de 2018

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 comp...

01 de jan. de 2003

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

28 de ago. de 2013

02 de jan. de 2012

A fictional journey of post-apocalyptic survival.

01 de jan. de 2014