Festival de Cine de Huesca - Huesca Film Festival

41ª edición

 

10 - 16 June 2013


39 edition > International Short Film Contest >

DREXCIYA

Based on the myth by a Detroit electronic band, Drexciya is an underwater subcontinent populated by the unborn children of pregnant African women thrown off slave ships that had adapted to breathe underwater in their mother's wombs. A portrait of an abandoned public swimming facility located in Accra, Ghana. The Riviera was once known as Ghana's first "pleasure" beach. A one-time extravagant Ambassador Hotel of post-colonial - early Kwame Nkrumah era, the Riviera Beach Club thrived until the mid-1970's. The Olympic-sized pool, now in a dilapidated state, is used by the locals for things other than swimming.

 

 

Director: Akosua Adoma Owusu

Born in Virginia in 1984 to Ghanaian parents. Filmmaker and artist. Graduate in Media Studies and Fine Art from the University of Virginia and from the California Institute of the Arts in the MFA program of Film & Video and Fine Art. Ranked #6 in ARTFORUM's Top 10, her film, Me Broni Ba (my white baby) participated in over 45 international and domestic film festivals worldwide. She is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2008, a participant of Produire au Sud Workshop in Nantes, France, and a featured artist at the 56th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in 2010. Founder of the production company, Obibini Pictures. Lives and works in Accra, Ghana and the US. Flmography: Ajube Kete (2005), Intermittent Delight (2007), me broni ba (2008), Drexciya (2010).


Script: Akosua Adoma Owusu

Photography: Dustin Thompson, Akosua Adoma Owusu

Editing: Dustin Thompson

Art director: -

Animation: -

Sound: Nathan Ruyle

Music: -

Main actors:-

Production company: Obibini Pictures

Contact: akosuadoma@yahoo.com - www.mebroniba.com - www.akosuaadoma.com


Length: 12 min.

Country:   Ghana   United States   

Genre: Experimental - Color

Year: 2010

Version: Original

 

 
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