Five Murmurations
Three-screen black and white video installation exploring how individuals and communities have been coping with the pandemic, the radical...
See moreThe Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile. This video profiles...
See moreGoldie: When Saturn Returns
Goldie, the godfather of drum and bass takes us on a roller coaster ride through his frenetic life. A journey that takes us from Wolver Hampton to...
See moreA Touch of the Tar Brush
Black filmmaker John Akomfrah believes that, for too long, being English has meant being white. In an attempt to show Englishness from the point of...
See morePurple
Purple is a six-channel video installation addressing climate change, human communities and the wilderness. At a time when greenhouse gas emissions...
See morePrecarity
A three-channel video installation, working with the themes of risk, hybridity and the unfathomable to explore the city of New Orleans through the...
See moreBecoming Wind
In his new work on five screens, "Becoming Wind", Akomfrah creates an allegorical representation of the Garden of Eden and its disappearance. In...
See moreThe Airport
The Airport, a three-screen film installation conceived as a meditation on Greek history and its recent financial crisis, set around the landscapes...
See moreMemory Room 451
The subject matter of Memory Room 451 is the cultural and historical significance of 20th-century hairstyles – the Afro, the conk, dreadlocks – in...
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Digitopia
Drama about a man who lives in an analogue world but seeks to fulfil his desires in a digital world.
See moreTriptych
Triptych (2020) is a homage to the the radical, political album, ‘We Insist!’ (1960) by the jazz musician Max Roach – the ideas of which prefigured...
See moreTransfigured Night
Transfigured Night draws its inspiration from two sources of the same name – Verklärte Nacht – the German poem by Richard Dehmel from 1896 and the...
See moreVertigo Sea
Vertigo Sea is a three-screen film installation that explores what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls 'the sublime seas'. Fusing archival material, readings...
See moreThe Unfinished Conversation
Through juxtaposing and layering archival footage with text, music and photographs, The Unfinished Conversation crosses the memory landscape of...
See moreTropikos
Tropikos transforms the landscape of the Tamar Valley in the South West of England into a sixteenth-century port of exploration on the African...
See moreStan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz
Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz is a portrait of one musician’s lifetime achievement. In a career spanning 60 years as pianist and...
See moreThe Call of Mist
A vivid meditation on cloning, death, memory and media set on an remote Scottish island. A short film on the millennium’s end commissioned by BBC TV.
See moreActs Of Faith
Auto Da Fé is a diptych that looks at migration through the lens of religious persecution. Presented as a poetic period drama, the film presents a...
See moreNumen
A fictional journey of post-apocalyptic survival.
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