John Akomfrah

Overview

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Acting
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Birthday
May 04, 1957 (68 years old)

John Akomfrah

Known For

John On The Void
0h 3m
Movie 2018

John On The Void

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

This Is My Africa
0h 52m
Movie 2008

This Is My Africa

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

Black and White in Colour
1h 40m
Movie 1992

Black and White in Colour

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. Interviewees include: Pearl Connor, Thomas Baptiste, Lenny Henry, Norman Beaton, Horace Ové, Carmen Munroe, and Stuart Hall.

A Touch of the Tar Brush
0h 40m
Movie 1991

A Touch of the Tar Brush

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 view of mixed-race English people, he visits Liverpool, one of England's oldest multicultural communities.

Biography

John Akomfrah, CBE (born 4 May 1957) is a British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".

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