Trevor Mathison

5.1 MovieA black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake...

Looking for Langston

1989

5.9 MovieThe Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving archival photographs,...

Handsworth Songs

1986

7.0 MovieAn examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly progressing computer technology.

The Last Angel of History

1996

5.2 MovieModeled after a popular collection of stories known as "Brother Gardener's Lime Kiln Club," the plot features three suitors vying to win the hand of the local beauty....

Lime Kiln Club Field Day

1913

5.6 MoviePart documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant...

The Nine Muses

2010

5.2 MovieA cinematic omnibus rooted in New Orleans, challenging the idea of black cinema as a "wave" or "movement in time," proposing instead a continuous thread of achievement.

America

2019

8.5 MovieA fictional letter from a daughter, Olivia, to her mother in Dominica is the narrative thread connecting interviews from (predominantly) black and Asian cultural...

Twilight City

1989

7.0 MovieGoldie, 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 Tokyo, Miami to...

Goldie: When Saturn Returns

1998

10.0 MovieJohn Akomfrah’s seminal Riot traces the riots in Liverpool during July 1981 in a climate of economic recession under Thatcher’s regime. Akomfrah captures this turning...

Riot

1999

10.0 MovieThe Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconography as narrated by...

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

1993

8.0 MovieThe tumultuous life of the controversial 1960s black revolutionary (and convicted murderer) Michael X is illustrated by a kaleidoscopic melding of sound and images....

Who Needs a Heart

1991

MovieA fictional journey of post-apocalyptic survival.

Numen

2014

MovieCommemorateing the millions of African soldiers, labourers and carriers participated in the First World War on the African continent and on the Western Front in Europe.

Mimesis: African Soldier

2018

MovieBlack Bullets is an homage to the Haitian revolution of 1791 when enslaved Africans rebelled against colonial rule. The slavery practiced by the French colonial...

Black Bullets

MovieA homage to Russian film giant Andrei Tarkovsky, this work integrates excerpts of soundtracks from Tarkovsky’s films with a slideshow of landscapes shot by Akomfrah...

At the Graveside of Tarkovsky

2012

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

Purple

2017

MovieListening All Night To The Rain continues John Akomfrah’s abiding interest in post-colonialism, ecology and the politics of aesthetics with a renewed focus on the...

Listening All Night to the Rain

2024