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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 - 19:00
Cast:
Nana Saah Adwubi Kete
Cinematography:
Alexandre Lamarque
Editing:
Dylan Bowman
Sound:
Kari Rae Seekins
Music:
Manhyia Tete Nnwomkoro
Producer:
Akosua Adoma Owusu
Production:
Obibini Pictures
WHITE AFRO is a deceptively simple film about a highly complex phenomenon - that of the appropriation of marginal cultures y the white majority, with self-aestheticizing and mercantile purposes. Using an archive instructional film on how to give perms, Adoma Owosu subltly uses image to reclaim her heritage. (Flavia Dima)
Director:
AKOSUA ADOMA OWUSU (n. 1984) is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker whose films address a collision of identities, where the African immigrant in America has a triple consciousness. Named by IndieWire as one of six preeminent «Avant-Garde Female Filmmakers Who Redefined Cinema», she has exhibited at various festivals and galleries worldwide, including at the Centre Pompidou, at Berlinale, Rotterdam, Locarno, and BFI London.
Contact:
Obibini Pictures
Festivals, awards:
Locarno 2019 / Toronto 2019 / Clermont-Ferrand 2019 / MoMA Documentary Fortnight 2020 / Uppsala 2019 / Winterthur 2019 / Vienna Shorts 2020
In her fascinating new film, the director Akosua Adoma Owusu continues her research that combines hairdressing and racial context. The power of her editing, her salutary work of rare archives and her aesthetic originality are reinforced by the political significance of her work, underlined in a subtle way by Toni Morrison’s words. This film definitively confirms the extremely original and innovative work of this internationally renowned artist − exhibited and presented in museum collections − who shows how important it is to always redefine the boundaries between video art and cinema.” Charlotte Corchète