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This is My Africa screening with Fantôme Afrique Series: The 15th Annual New York African Film Festival [April 9-April 15] This is My Africa US Premiere Zina Saro-Wiwa, African continent/Nigeria/UK, 2008; 55m This Is My Africa is a project that seeks to change the public dialogue surrounding Africa. An 18-point questionnaire reveals the Africa that inhabits 18 people’s memories and personal perspectives. These interviewees evoke the Africa that has inspired, infuriated and delighted them, as they detail their favorite foods, songs, writers and artists, as well as their hopes for Africa come 2060. Unexpected passion rises in these testimonies, views and ideas that come at an important time for the continent. Featuring Yinka Shonibare, John Akomfrah, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Colin Firth, among others. screening with Fantôme Afrique Isaac Julien, UK, 2005; 16m In Fantôme Afrique, Isaac Julien paints a picture of West Africa as a place where European, Arabic, and black African civilizations meet and cross with contemporary, transnational culture. The film is brought to life by two protagonists, male and female, who appear in multiple urban and rural sites. The man, renowned choreographer and dancer Stephen Galloway (Ballet Frankfurt), dances through such spaces as a desert mosque and severe modernist buildings, appearing and suddenly disappearing as if by magic. The woman, Vanessa Myrie, steady and self-possessed in her movements, passes in turn through crowded streets, a vacant outdoor cinema, and the ramparts and granaries of an ancient village. Galloway and Myrie figure as “trickster/phantom” and “witness” in this carefully composed meditation on the denationalized, de-territorialized spaces born of the encounters between local and global cultures, where the ghosts of history linger amid the realities of the present.

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