John Akomfrah Movies
- 2017
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...
- 2016
Acts Of Faith
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Auto Da Fé is a diptych that looks at migration through the lens of religious persecution. Presented as a poetic period drama, the film...
- 1984
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...
- 1998
The Call of Mist
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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...
- 2016
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...
- 2009
Genome Chronicles
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The Genome Chronicles is an epic investigation, unbounded by traditional notions of time, into the relationship between image and memory. Fusing...
- 1983
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire
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Produced while the Black Audio Film Collective were undergraduates, Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire is the first of a two-part 35mm slide-tape...
- 2012
Peripeteia
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Peripeteia (Greek: περιπέτεια; a reversal of circumstances, or turning point) is a moving...