Projects
Golden Chain
In the distant future, a Nigerian space station orbits a dense, artificial pinpoint of matter in a remote galaxy—a recreation of the universe's birth for study, overseen by Yetunde, the sole crew member of space station Eko.
"The Golden Chain" marks the first collaboration between experimental filmmaker Adebukola Bodunrin and graphic novelist Ezra Claytan Daniels. Despite their diverse backgrounds, both share a passion for Afrofuturism. The film intertwines their disparate aesthetics to reimagine the Yoruba creation tale, blending traditional motifs with hard science fiction. The story explores themes of creation, with Obatala's descent transformed into an astronaut's journey to the galaxy's edge, prompting the question: "Where will we go, given where we came from?"
Distributed by Vtape
13:20 | 2016
Gather + Listen
Gather + Listen is an animation that focuses on the subtle movements and rhythms that unconsciously happen at an owambe, a Nigerian street party. As people come together in joy, their hearts begin to beat to the same rhythm, as if united in happiness.
Looping Animation
4:39 | 2014
Until One Day
This series delves into the fascination with apocalypse fantasies. Participants are asked, "How do you envision the world's end?" Their responses are transformed into animated "apocalypse portraits." These whimsically morose creations are then captured frame by frame, featuring the participant holding each frame of the animation loop with their face cropped off the screen. This unconventional "anthropological study" explores the intricate interplay between tragedy and fantasy in a visually captivating way.
EVEN WHEN LIFE IS SAD, PEOPLE STILL HAVE A GOOD TIME
A partially destroyed fragment of Powell and Pressburger's 1951 Technicolor dream film Tales of Hoffman, becomes a site of a ruptured fantasy
16mm Film
3:46 | 2005
IT'S HARD TO RECOGNIZE SPEECH/ IT'S HARD TO WRECK A NICE BEACH
A quirky tale of language, society, adaptation, and what makes us who we are. Pixilation, long-exposure photography, and digital manipulation are used to recreate and enhance memories.
15:30 | 2007
Client Projects
"The Ooli Moves" is a piece from Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble's acclaimed avant-garde jazz album, "Intergalactic Beings." The album is inspired by Octavia Butler's influential sci-fi novel series, "Xenogenesis." This afrofuturist music video explores themes of repulsion and desire in its interpretation of the hypnotic mating dance of the mysterious alien race known as the Ooli.
Commissioned by KCET for the Emmy award winning documentary series "Artbound" Portrait of the Lula Washington Dance Theatre. It’s more than just a building or studio. It's a beacon of black ownership, a means in which to share a powerful message about race and society, and a necessary part of their community.
What if the stories L.A. told about itself relegated you to the margins? This episode explores two underground guidebooks -- The Negro Travelers' Green Book and The Address Book -- that reveal the hidden geographies many Angelinos had to navigate, exposing Los Angeles as a place of coded segregation and resistance.