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John Akomfrah
b. 1957, Accra, Ghana · British-Ghanaian · Based in London, United Kingdom
- BA in Sociology, Portsmouth Polytechnic (1982); founder of Black Audio Film Collective
- Multi-Screen Film Installation
- Cinematic Collage
- Soundscapes
John Akomfrah is a filmmaker and artist whose work combines archival footage, staged sequences, music and essayistic montage to examine migration, memory, colonialism and ecology. As a founding member of the Black Audio Film Collective, he helped transform Black British moving-image culture.
Film; video installation
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
John Akomfrah: Conversations with Noise | Art21 "Extended Play"
John Akomfrah in "London" - Season 10 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
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Major Works
- 1986Handsworth Songs
- 2012The Unfinished Conversation
- 2015Vertigo Sea
- 2017Purple
- 2010The Nine Muses
- 2010Mnemosyne
- 2016Auto Da Fé
- 2017Precarity
- 2019Four Nocturnes
- 2024Listening All Night to the Rain
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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