John Akomfrah Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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