Ayo Akingbade

Directing

Biography

Ayo Akingbade is an artist, writer and director.

Filmography Movies

Acting

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Room 999

5.6(0.0K)

In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, Alice Rohrwacher and more) the same question: “is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”

Keep Looking

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A young filmmaker named Domino travels from the UK to New York City to hunt down funding for her new film. Harkening back to classic counter-cultural Big Apple films of the 70s and 80s, Keep Looking has a loose, jazzy feel that gives this simple narrative a hip freshness.

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Keep Looking

Domino

Production

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Jitterbug

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It's the summer and talented teenager Afeni Omolade is on the cusp of leaving home to take up an offer to study History of Art at Cambridge University. However, the life she has always known in Hackney suddenly comes under threat.

Hella Trees

4.0(0.0K)

"Okay, let’s talk about trees. Why are you so obsessed with them?" asks Akingbade, the filmmaker, of young artist Rafiki, whose artistic practice focuses on trees: their individuality and presence.

Fire in My Belly

5.0(0.0K)

Echoing the precarious times we live in, a newly commissioned documentary Fire In My Belly (2021) offers a compelling take on questions of home, community and crisis in the metropolitan city of London. (Whitechapel Gallery) HD video, colour, sound

Fire in My Belly

Dear Babylon

6.0(0.0K)

The future of social housing is threatened by the AC30 Housing Bill. Set in London's East End, a trio of art students are eager to raise awareness about their neighbourhood especially the lives of tenants and people who work on the estate.

Acting as part ode and through a series of interpretations, Claudette’s Star depicts young artists considering with sheer wonder who is given a voice.

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Claudette's Star

Sound Recordist