ACCOMPANYING CAMERAS AND FILMIC PROCESSES OF CARE
THE A-TEAM
By : NNENNA ONUOHA
2021 | 17 min | VOSTA
Countries of origin of director : Ghana, Nigeria
Countries of production : United States, Germany
Countries of recording : Ghana, United States
SYNOPSIS :
Over the phone, thirteen former classmates reminisce about their Ghanaian high school’s exchange trip to Jackson, Mississippi, USA, a decade earlier. But the more they remember, the stranger it becomes. Comprised of a mix of black and blurry images, the visuals mimic the group’s memory blocks and uncertainties, as well as those moments that they struggle to confront from the present day.
BIOGRAPHY :
Nnenna Onuoha is a Ghanaian-Nigerian researcher and moving-image artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her research explores monumental silences surrounding the histories and afterlives of colonialism across West Africa, Europe and the United States. At its core, her work asks: How do we remember, which pasts do we choose to perform, and why? Centering Afrodiasporic voices, her practice revolves around processes of collective re-membering: putting the past together limb by limb. A second strand of her work focuses on archiving Black experience in the present to understand how, amidst all of this, we practice care and repair for each other.
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