John Akomfrah Movies

  • 2024
    Scala!!!

    Scala!!!

    Scala!!!

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    This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which...

    Scala!!!
  • 2013
    Venice 70: Future Reloaded

    Venice 70: Future Reloaded

    Venice 70: Future Reloaded

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    Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

    Venice 70: Future Reloaded
  • 1993
    Seven Songs for Malcolm X

    Seven Songs for Malcolm X

    Seven Songs for Malcolm X

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

    Seven Songs for Malcolm X
  • 1990
    Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

    Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

    Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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

    Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  • 1986
    Handsworth Songs

    Handsworth Songs

    Handsworth Songs

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

    Handsworth Songs
  • 1998
    Goldie: When Saturn Returns

    Goldie: When Saturn Returns

    Goldie: When Saturn Returns

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    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...

    Goldie: When Saturn Returns
  • 1996
    The Last Angel of History

    The Last Angel of History

    The Last Angel of History

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

    The Last Angel of History
  • 2008
    This Is My Africa

    This Is My Africa

    This Is My Africa

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    Interviewees discuss the memories, tastes and experiences that they associate with Africa for a personal vision of the continent.

    This Is My Africa
  • 2001
    Digitopia

    Digitopia

    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.

    Digitopia
  • 1998
    Speak Like a Child

    Speak Like a Child

    Speak Like a Child

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

    Speak Like a Child
  • 2013
    Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

    Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

    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...

    Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
  • 2021
    Five Murmurations

    Five Murmurations

    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...

    Five Murmurations
  • 2013
    The March

    The March

    The March

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

    The March
  • 2013
    The Stuart Hall Project

    The Stuart Hall Project

    The Stuart Hall Project

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    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,...

    The Stuart Hall Project
  • 2021
    Triptych

    Triptych

    Triptych

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

    Triptych
  • 2010
    The Nine Muses

    The Nine Muses

    The Nine Muses

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

    The Nine Muses
  • 2014
    Transfigured Night

    Transfigured Night

    Transfigured Night

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

    Transfigured Night
  • 1991
    Who Needs a Heart

    Who Needs a Heart

    Who Needs a Heart

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

    Who Needs a Heart
  • 1992
    Black and White in Colour

    Black and White in Colour

    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....

    Black and White in Colour
  • 2017
    Precarity

    Precarity

    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...

    Precarity