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- The March is the feature documentary narrated by Denzel Washington about the renowned and historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
- Tackling the ecological implications of settler colonialism, extractive capitalism and the extinction of microorganisms, this multi-screen installation digs into the oral as well as representational history of various Indigenous cultures.
- Akomfrah's latest work Vertigo Sea (2015) is a new three-screen film installation that explores what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls 'the sublime seas'. Fusing archival material, readings from classical sources and newly shot footage, Akomfrah's piece focuses on the disorder and cruelty of the whaling industry and juxtaposes it with scenes of many generations of migrants making epic crossings of the ocean for a better life.
- 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.
- An experimental documentary, combining archive visuals with acted scenes, on how colonial Europe used its subjects from such places as Africa to fight for them in the Great War.
- Auto Da Fé (2016) or Acts Of Faith, is a diptych that looks at migration through the lens of religious persecution and continues Akomfrah's longstanding interest in the transmutations brought about by relocation. Presented as a lyrical period drama, the film lays bare colonial and post-colonial experience through its documentation of eight historical migrations over the last 400 years.
- Akomfrah has turned his attention to the creation of a film archive of today, made in real-time, documenting how individuals and communities have been coping with the pandemic, the radical mobilization seen on the streets and the disruption of cycles of racism, and the increasingly urgent crisis of climate change. Culminating in a new three-screen video installation, this body of work is a deep exploration into our understanding of the personal within a collective consciousness of emergency, portraiture, mortality, revenge, mourning and memory.
- The Airport, a three-screen film installation conceived as a meditation on Greek history and its recent financial crisis, set around the landscapes of Southern Greece and an abandoned airfield near Athens, recalls the work of two filmmaking greats: Stanley Kubrick and Theo Angelopolous.
- Four Nocturnes forms the third part of a trilogy of films including Vertigo Sea and Purple that explore the complex intertwined relationship between humanity's destruction of the natural world and our destruction of ourselves. Using Africa's declining elephant populations as its narrative spine, Four Nocturnes will be staged as a set of impressionist meditations on fugitive time(s), on improper light and the unnamed scandal. The film questions mortality, loss, fragmented identity, mythology, and memory through poetic visuals that survey the landscape of African cultural heritage.
- This 6 channel film uses footage from 10 countries to show the impact human beings, with their oil refineries, factories and traffic clogged highways, have had on the planet.
- TROPIKOS explores a deep-rooted, darker history of the river and its connections to the slave trade. The film installation transforms the landscape of the river into a 16th Century English port of exploration and an unfamiliar place on the African continent.
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- 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 the 1950s onwards.
- Documentary celebrating the life and work of jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey.
- M, a night creature, struggles with insomnia. The only solution is to sleep with someone- her ''victims'' are chosen carefully, always different and only for one night.