27.09. | 18:30 – 20:00
An Afrofuturistic Short Film Showcase with
OYA, ROBOTS OF BRIXTON, JONAH, DREXCIYA and PUMZI
Filmstill © Drexcya
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DREXCIYA
Dir. Simon Rittmeier (2012, Germany/ Burkina Faso, 28 min)
Synopsis:
Thomas is a smuggler, shipping European refugees who hope to find a better life in Africa. One day his boat sinks and he is washed up on the African coast as the only survivor. He then makes his way to the nearest city – Drexciya.
Simon Rittmeier, born in Nuremberg in 1981, he grew up in Erlangen, Germany. After highschool he worked in Rwanda as a social worker. He then studied Visual Communication and Film at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg and the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. 2009 artist scholarschip at Havanna, Ludwig Foundation of Cuba. He has directed documentary films and has worked on different projects as director of photography. „Drexciya“ is his diploma.
PUMZI
Dir. Wanuri Kahiu (2009, Kenya, 21min)
Synopsis:
Pumzi, Kenya’s first science fiction film, imagines a dystopian future 35 years after water wars have torn the world apart. East African survivors of the ecological devastation remain locked away in contained communities, but a young woman in possession of a germinating seed struggles against the governing council to bring the plant to Earth’s ruined surface.
WANURI KAHIU was born in Nairobi, Kenya. After graduating from the University of Warwick in 2001 with a BSc degree in Management Science, she enrolled for a Master’s Degree at the ‚Masters of Fine Arts‘ programme in directing at the School of Film and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Her movie From a Whisper received a total of twelve nominations and earned five awards at the 5th African Movie Academy Awards in 2009.
JONAH
Dir. Kibwe Tavares (UK, 17min)
Synopsis:
Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn’t what he dreamed – and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive. Jonah is a big fish story about the old and the new, and the links and the distances between them. A visual feast, shot though with humour and warmth, it tells an old story in a completely new way.
KIBWE TAVARES, Sundance prize-winning director, created his award-winning film Robots of Brixton while pursuing a degree in architecture.
He then went on to direct the Sundance film JONAH, a stunning combination of live-action shot on location in Zanzibar with beautiful visual effects created at Factory Fifteen. Recently Kibwe was named one of the top 20 young global directors at the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase, Cannes 2014. He won the Best Short Film award for Jonah at the CFP-E and SHOTS Young Directors Award.
ROBOTS OF BRIXTON
Dir. Kibwe Tavares (2011, UK, 5:30min)
Synopsis:
Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London’s new robot workforce – robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline. The film follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment. When the Police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981.
KIBWE TAVARES, Sundance prize-winning director, created his award-winning film Robots of Brixton while pursuing a degree in architecture.
He then went on to direct the Sundance film JONAH, a stunning combination of live-action shot on location in Zanzibar with beautiful visual effects created at Factory Fifteen. Recently Kibwe was named one of the top 20 young global directors at the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase, Cannes 2014. He won the Best Short Film award for Jonah at the CFP-E and SHOTS Young Directors Award.
Filmstill © Robots of Brixton
OYA
Dir. Nosa Igbinedion (2014, UK, 12min)
Synopsis:
The Orisha, african gods of the Santeria religion have been all but forgotten by humanity, who are headed for self destruction. Only Orisha Oya goddes of change is still connected to Adesuwa, her dedicated devotee. Now, a twisted zealot with a warped idea of the Orisha wants to bring about the downfall of human race.
NOSA IGBINEDION is a UK based, African movie director, screenwriter and creative entreprenuer. He is focusedd on using digital technology and transmedia storytelling to reimagine african cinema for the internet age. He is the director of the first african superhero movie, Oya – Rise of the Superorisha
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