Live from Nollywood, the epicentre of the African movie industry, Nigerian performers establish contact with a European theatre audience. We look at them, but how do they look at us - and we at ourselves?
Studio Dries Verhoeven and Kininso Koncepts join forces in a live stream of a performance about the relationship between Africa and the global North. In a film studio by the beach of Lagos, they analyse the archetypical images of Africa, as they appear in Western media: swelling refugee flows, desperate victims, but also Internet swindlers and black sex objects. European theatregoers follow the uneasy presentation live, via a fast Internet connection. Soon, the viewing angle reverses; with a slow-moving webcam, the Nigerian performers examine the audience and reduce the distance between both worlds.
Credits
Director
Concept Developer
Executive producer
Sound Design
Still photography
Cast (bijrol)
Creative producer
Dramaturgie
Gouden Kalf winner
Best Digital Culture Production (2023)
Dries Verhoeven
Best Digital Culture Production (2023)
Kininso Koncepts
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