John Akomfrah Movies

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

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...

Produced while the Black Audio Film Collective were undergraduates, Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire is the first of a two-part 35mm slide-tape...

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...

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

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

Artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah recounts an experience sailing through French Polynesia.

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

The subject matter of Memory Room 451 is the cultural and historical significance of 20th-century hairstyles – the Afro, the conk, dreadlocks...

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

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