John Akomfrah Filmes
- 1992
Black and White in Colour
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A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992....
- 2017
Precarity
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A three-channel video installation, working with the themes of risk, hybridity and the unfathomable to explore the city of New Orleans through the...
- 2015
Vertigo Sea
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Vertigo Sea is a three-screen film installation that explores what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls 'the sublime seas'. Fusing archival material, readings...
- 2001
Digitopia
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Drama about a man who lives in an analogue world but seeks to fulfil his desires in a digital world.
- 2016
The Airport
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The Airport, a three-screen film installation conceived as a meditation on Greek history and its recent financial crisis, set around the landscapes...
- 2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
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Documentary commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington, a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement in the...
- 2017
Purple
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Purple is a six-channel video installation addressing climate change, human communities and the wilderness. At a time when greenhouse gas emissions...
- 2023
Arcadia
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Tackling the ecological implications of settler colonialism, extractive capitalism and the extinction of microorganisms, this multi-screen...
- 2021
Five Murmurations
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Three-screen black and white video installation exploring how individuals and communities have been coping with the pandemic, the radical...
- 1999
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile. This video profiles...
- 2012
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
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A homage to Russian film giant Andrei Tarkovsky, this work integrates excerpts of soundtracks from Tarkovsky’s films with a slideshow of...
- 2013
Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster
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A short film made for Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded (2013).
- 1991
A Touch of the Tar Brush
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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...
- 2018
John On The Void
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Artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah recounts an experience sailing through French Polynesia.
- 1998
The Call of Mist
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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...
- 2013
The Unfinished Conversation
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Through juxtaposing and layering archival footage with text, music and photographs, The Unfinished Conversation crosses the memory landscape of...
- 1999
Riot
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John Akomfrah’s seminal Riot traces the riots in Liverpool during July 1981 in a climate of economic recession under Thatcher’s regime....
- 2018
Mimesis: African Soldier
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Commemorateing the millions of African soldiers, labourers and carriers participated in the First World War on the African continent and on the...
- 2014
Numen
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A fictional journey of post-apocalyptic survival.
- 2003
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
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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...