Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Zina Saro-Wiwa’s “alt-Nollywood” short film, Phyllis, is one of the weirder fifteen minutes of film I’ve seen in some time. “Using Nollywood to subvert Nollywood,” it is an atmospheric, impressionistic, and haunting film, chronicling Phyllis’s emotional states as she takes the wigs that form such a huge part of her identity on and off.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Two events in London this year focused on female filmmakers working in African cinema. This is high exposure for a demographic of the African film industry that is generally low on the radar.
Mapo do mundo
14 Nov 2011 at 3:00 pm
Gal draws Belgium and Congo
3 Dec 2010 at 12:00 pm
Music Break. Iyadede
8 Dec 2011 at 6:00 pm
Black Power Mixtape
10 Oct 2011 at 3:00 pm
Running with white people
22 Oct 2012 at 8:00 am
The bigger question is not why Fran...
30 Jan 2013 at 5:58 pm
When ‘Africa’ at the Theatre Goes W...
11 Feb 2013 at 6:00 am
Shit (some) South Africans say
6 Mar 2012 at 12:00 pm
The Year of Frantz Fanon
21 Dec 2011 at 11:00 am
