Smoking Dog Films Movie Trailers

The Nine Muses Trailer (2010)

01 September 2010

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.

Riot Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

John Akomfrah’s seminal Riot traces the riots in Liverpool during July 1981 in a climate of economic recession under Thatcher’s regime.

Four Nocturnes Trailer (2019)

11 May 2019

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.

Arcadia Trailer (2023)

30 November 2023

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.

Listening All Night to the Rain Trailer (2024)

20 April 2024

Listening 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 sonic.

The Stuart Hall Project Trailer (2013)

18 January 2013

A person’s culture is something that is often described as fixed or defined and rooted in a particular region, nation, or state.

Digitopia Trailer (2001)

28 April 2001

Drama about a man who lives in an analogue world but seeks to fulfil his desires in a digital world.