John Akomfrah

John Akomfrah
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 5 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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Handsworth Songs
An experimental documentary about the Handsworth riots and the racial and immigration tensions around them.
Testament
Twenty years after leaving her homeland of Ghana, a documentary filmmaker returns to make a film, and is confronted with tremendously conflicting emotions (yahoo.com)
The Nine Muses
Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant experience coming into the UK from 1960 onwards. (imdb)
The Stuart Hall Project
Stuart Hall is one of the most influential and esteemed cultural theorists of a generation. A thinker and commentator, his peers include other giants of political commentary such as Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, Alan Ginsberg, Michel Foucault and Gore Vidal. THE STUART HALL PROJECT takes the viewer on a roller coaster ride through the upheavals, struggles and turning points that made the 20th century the century of campaigning, and of global political and cultural change. (imdb)
The Last Angel of History
Framed by the fictional story of the "data thief", this hybrid documentary takes a look at the origins, impact and significance of Afrofuturism and techno music for the black diaspora. (imdb)