John Akomfrah Movies

Tropikos transforms the landscape of the Tamar Valley in the South West of England into a sixteenth-century port of exploration on the African...

Peripeteia (Greek: περιπέτεια; a reversal of circumstances, or turning point) is a moving...

Commemorateing the millions of African soldiers, labourers and carriers participated in the First World War on the African continent and on the...

Commissioned for the inaugural Ghana pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Four Nocturnes (2019) forms the third part of a trilogy of films including the...

A fictional journey of post-apocalyptic survival.

A three-channel video installation, working with the themes of risk, hybridity and the unfathomable to explore the city of New Orleans through the...

In his new work on five screens, "Becoming Wind", Akomfrah creates an allegorical representation of the Garden of Eden and its disappearance. In...

Purple is a six-channel video installation addressing climate change, human communities and the wilderness. At a time when greenhouse gas emissions...