Books. Visual arts. Films. Those three, in different order, make life bearable. [email protected]
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Word on the street is that one Seyi Lasisi wrote, in the words of @IIIIHela, a "sizzling 🔥" review of @MamiWatamovie for @afrocritik. You know what to do, right? Watch the film. Read the review. Share your thoughts. Eseee.
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one of the fun parts of covering AFCM with the geng is me and @jeffreejude analyzing why we're poor. fun times mehn!!!
just curious. in my experience, non-Nigerian filmmakers are keen — eager even, to share screener of their films for reviews while Nigerian filmmakers(with few exceptions) aren't. from a filmmaker’s POV, will love to know why.
AFRIFF Day 5 and i have, sadly, seen 3 films. covering the Market has monopolized my attention. but, i am keen to watch and engage with the selected films. any filmmaker keen for a critic to watch and write about their films, send a DM or email([email protected])
again, one of the pleasures of being a Nigerian film critic is having the rare opportunity to watch a GREAT film and interview its director.
spoke with @ChuGailx about Her Daughters' Mother after watching it few weeks ago.
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"If we don’t preserve and make that history accessible, every generation will eventually have to rediscover it from scratch — and whoever remains most visible will inevitably be mistaken for whoever mattered most.”
@Ms_Ojo
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"But you are glaucoma-bound with no health insurance, your romantic prospects are long gone and Funke Akindele is extracting your soul like a Texan oil magnate with charred teeth."
✍️ by @trueroguejordan
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"Tech enthusiasts and would-be Western literati keep screaming bloody murder. And BIPOC writers across the diaspora are left holding up ramparts in preparation for the river’s next wave."
✍️ by @iquivoid
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"Dear Nigerian artist, you can evolve as a person while your work remains mid."
✍️ by @iquivoid
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"If we don’t preserve and make that history accessible, every generation will eventually have to rediscover it from scratch — and whoever remains most visible will inevitably be mistaken for whoever mattered most.”
@Ms_Ojo
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my partner in this lonely journey, you all😎😎
I may not have a filmmaking collaborator (yet) but I have a film journalism buddy who’s so talented and makes working and ranting fun. Cheers to you, @SeyiVortex ✨
"The threat is therefore no longer confined to the men carrying rifles today but extends to the institutions, families, and children through which these networks may reproduce themselves tomorrow."
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"Writing is a solitary business, but the truth is, we don’t like mothers to be alone, and we hate mothers who express the desire to be alone."
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"Writing, for women especially, can be dangerous—socially and physically."
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there was a conversation about the Nollywood Big 3 days ago. that convo prompted some questions: how well do we know Nollywood, how dangerous is historical and cultural amnesia to Nollywood, and how do we preserve Nollywood's history?
thanks to @molarawood , @Ms_Ojo , and
@DikaOfoma(who couldn't comment due to his heavy schedule), i wrote about these questions.
s/o, as ALWAYS, to the Supreme editor, @whereistoun
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