John Akomfrah Movies

Tackling the ecological implications of settler colonialism, extractive capitalism and the extinction of microorganisms, this multi-screen...

Artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah recounts an experience sailing through French Polynesia.

Triptych (2020) is a homage to the the radical, political album, ‘We Insist!’ (1960) by the jazz musician Max Roach – the ideas of...

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

The subject matter of Memory Room 451 is the cultural and historical significance of 20th-century hairstyles – the Afro, the conk, dreadlocks...

Vertigo Sea is a three-screen film installation that explores what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls 'the sublime seas'. Fusing archival material, readings...

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