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UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
February 12 - February 12, 2014Info
- http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
- (510) 642-0808
Three award-winning portraits of African life, both on the continent and in the U.S. In Frances Bodomo’s Boneshaker, a family, lost in America, travels to a Louisiana church to find a cure for their troubled child. It stars Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild). Akosua Adoma Owusu’s spellbinding Kwaku Ananse brings to life a traditional Ghanian folktale, combining the contemporary with the mythological. Bentley Brown’s Faisal Goes West follows a Sudanese family to the U.S., where young son Faisal puts the family in a bind, triggering them to re-examine their American dream.
Frances Bodomo (Ghana/U.S.). Boneshaker, 2013; color digital video file;13 min.
Akosua Adoma Owusu, (Ghana). Kwaku Ananse, 2012; color, DCP; 25 min; from Piano.
Bentley Brown, (U.S./Sudan). Faisal Goes West, 34 mins; color, digital video file.
Total running time: 72 mins