John Akomfrah Movies

  • 2012
    Peripeteia

    Peripeteia

    Peripeteia

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    Peripeteia (Greek: περιπέτεια; a reversal of circumstances, or turning point) is a moving...

    Peripeteia
  • 2018
    John On The Void

    John On The Void

    John On The Void

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

    John On The Void
  • 2013
    Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster

    Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster

    Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster

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

    Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster
  • 2023
    Arcadia

    Arcadia

    Arcadia

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    Tackling the ecological implications of settler colonialism, extractive capitalism and the extinction of microorganisms, this multi-screen...

    Arcadia
  • 2010
    Mnemosyne

    Mnemosyne

    Mnemosyne

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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...

    Mnemosyne
  • 2018
    Mimesis: African Soldier

    Mimesis: African Soldier

    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...

    Mimesis: African Soldier
  • 1988
    Testament

    Testament

    Testament

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    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...

    Testament
  • 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
  • 2012
    Hauntologies

    Hauntologies

    Hauntologies

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    Hauntologies
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2016
    The Airport

    The Airport

    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...

    The Airport
  • 2017
    Purple

    Purple

    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...

    Purple
  • 1984
    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality

    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality

    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality

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

    Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality
  • 2015
    Vertigo Sea

    Vertigo Sea

    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...

    Vertigo Sea
  • 2012
    At the Graveside of Tarkovsky

    At the Graveside of Tarkovsky

    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...

    At the Graveside of Tarkovsky
  • 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
  • 2016
    Tropikos

    Tropikos

    Tropikos

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

    Tropikos
  • 2003
    Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz

    Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz

    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...

    Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz