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Triptych 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 the themes that became the Civil Rights and anti-apartheid movements. The catalyst for this film was the broadcasted portraits of figures such as Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, and the evident incongruity between the beguiling ordinariness of the images that represented them with the violent end we know they endured. Through a rare focus on portraiture, Akomfrah seeks to express the diversity of Black characters, characteristics and characterisations that should form the bedrock of any de-colonial or anti-racist future.

The Turn of the Screw A modern day version of Henry James' classic ghost story.

Four Nocturnes Commissioned for the inaugural Ghana pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Four Nocturnes (2019) forms the third part of a trilogy of films including the renowned Vertigo Sea (2015) and Purple (2017) 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 questions mortality, loss, fragmented identity, mythology and memory through poetic visuals that survey the landscape of African cultural heritage.

The Turn of the Screw Benjamin Britten’s opera of the Henry James novel. An inexperienced governess is sent to a country house to care for two children, whom she is gradually convinced have been corrupted by the ghosts of a previous manservant and governess…

Escapades of the One Par... A comedy of obsession and assimilation that charts the true account of a first generation Chinese-Canadian's attempt to fit into a white suburb. After an alienated childhood, she lands a job at an unpopular pasta bar, walking the streets as a 10-foot egg noodle. A transformation occurs when her new persona, Mr. Noodle, supersedes her own identity - only to confront a similar alienation as a noodle-human.

Major Repair Job Watch the $6 million man ram his visiting plumber’s “pipe” to a heavy metal soundtrack.

Queer Empathy: The Story... An in-depth look into the music of LGBTQ+ singer/songwriter Jordaan Mason.

The Sundry Angel A woman hired to tutor two orphaned children, Flora and Miles, begins to suspect that the little ones are being haunted by the ghosts of their previous tutor and her lover.

Burt Dow: Deep-Water Man A folksy old sailor sails his leaky dinghy into the belly of a whale.

Film Tattoo Narrative breaks down into a searching and tentative score, while optically printed flowers pass greens and reds and dirt against a scratchy white sky, then sometimes purples and blues and pink.