Her Name in My Mouth

Synopsis

A revision of the Aba Women’s War, the first major anti-colonial uprising in Nigeria, using embodiment, gesture and the archive.
The film is structured around the repurposing of archival films from the British propaganda arm, The Colonial Film Unit, cut against a gestural evocation of the women’s testimonies. 'Her Name in My Mouth' invokes the artist's own female ancestors in this filmic revocation of the Aba Women’s War that privileges the body as a site of knowledge.
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - International premiere

Details

Year

2017

Type of film

Shorts

Running Time

6 min 2 sec

Director

Onyeka Igwe

Sound

Patchfinder

Music

C-scraatch

Genre

• Experimental

Production status

Complete

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Last updated 18th April 2018