Review
LOOKING FOR AFRICA The documentary This Is My Africa has a moment of thrill for Nigerian viewers. It also has a moment of condescension. Within and around these moments director Zina Saro-Wiwa has fashioned an arty coterie of celebrities to talk about Africa, present their own versions of Africa by providing answers to: favourite African […]
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OF GODS AND AMBITIOUS DIRECTORS Oya tells the story of Adesuwa, a young woman with the ability to transform to Oya, the goddess of change. Adesuwa is on a mission to close the gateway between earth and the world of the Orishas. To succeed she must find the key. He has succeeded on making a […]
Read full postWALLIS’S WAY “Medicine will not heal her. I know prayer will.” Frances Bodomo’s short film Boneshaker stars Beast of the Southern Wild star Quvenzhane Wallis as a child believed by her parents to be afflicted by a spirit. The audience meets the family—father, mother, grandmother and 2 girls—en route church. Wallis opens the film screaming, […]
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ROOFS AND BRIDGES Roger Young’s short film Keys, Money, Phone is not so much about post-apartheid South Africa as about Seb, one of its entitled citizens. Seb is white, he is an asshole and he mouths off when pissed. The film starts with Seb (Anton Taylor) having an argument with a cabbie. He refuses to […]
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