John Akomfrah, Filmmaker

For the last 30 years John Akomfrah has been committed to giving a voice and a presence to the legacy of the African Diaspora in Europe; to fill in the voids in history by digging into historical archives to create film essays and speculative fictional stories about past lives. His poetic and polyphonic films create sensual visual and audio experiences while developing a filmic language to understand the trauma and sense of alienation of displaced subjects; one that moves away from the rhetoric of resentment to propose new agents and perspectives.

Director
2013 The March (TV Movie documentary)
 2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded (Documentary)
 2013 The Stuart Hall Project (Documentary)
 2010 The Nine Muses (Documentary)
 2010/I Mnemosyne (Documentary)
 2009 Oil Spill: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (TV Movie documentary)
 2007 Wetin Dey (TV Series)
 2004 Urban Soul: The Making of Modern R&B (TV Movie documentary)
 2003 Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz (TV Movie documentary)
 2003 Mariah Carey: The Billion Dollar Babe (TV Movie documentary)
 2000 A Very British Murder (TV Series) (1 episode)
- A Death in the Family (2000)  1999 Riot (Documentary)
 1998 Call of Mist (Short)
 1998 Speak Like a Child
 1997 Martin Luther King: Days of Hope (TV Movie)
 1996 Voices in the Dark (TV Movie)
 1996 Last Angel of History (TV Movie documentary)
 1995 African Footsteps (TV Series documentary)
 1993 Seven Songs for Malcolm X (Documentary)
 1991 Who Needs a Heart
 1988 Testament
 1987 Handsworth Songs (Documentary)