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Film: Future Remembrance
| November 9, 2007 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
A delightful, exuberant, documentary by Tobias Wendl and Nancy du Plessis about the role of photography, photographers and the art of image making in Ghana. We meet the photographers, sculptors and painters including Manifest: Colonial Tendencies of the West artist, Philip Kwame Apagya. These artists tell us in their own words about the economic, social, cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual motivations of their work. Innovation and improvisation abound, from the traveling photographer who has been making and selling his own cameras out of wood and scrap since the 1930’s to the studio photographers who specialize in providing elaborate backdrops that inspire their customers poses (Apagya). Families commission life-size, lifelike, powerful sculptures of loved ones, crafted from small photographs as reference, to honor and remember the dead. Issues of gender arise when we realize all the artists and photographers are men but their customers are both men and women. The influence of American print media on local artists exists but the resulting work is so transformed in the process that the original source is almost unrecognizable.
Information
- Runtime: 55 min
- Language: English, Akan, and Ewe w/English subtitles
- Year: 1998
- Color: Color
- Rating: Unrated
Film Festivals / Awards
- Margaret Mead Festival 1998
- Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival
- ICAES Film Program Selection
- Award For Excellence Society for Visual Anthropology
- Award, Vitas Folklore Film Festival, UCLA
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