New Dimensions: Virtual Reality from Africa

Arts & Culture
re:publica 2017

Short thesis: 

In this session award-winning film director Ng’endo Mukii will talk about her virtual reality film ‘Nairobi Berries’ and give us an insight into the filmmaking/VR scene in Africa. The session will be introduced by the European Film Market of the Berlinale, which hosts a platform for collaboration between the African and the international film industry.

Description: 

Ng'endo Mukii is an award-winning film director, most well known for ‘Yellow Fever,' her documentary-animation exploring Western influences on African women's ideals of beauty. Her work focuses on relationships, the separation between perception and reality, and the use of moving image to represent unspoken truths. 
 
In ‘Nairobi Berries’ two women and a man wrangle. Each must hollow out the other’s core for fruits promised but only ever borne in dreams. The film is a poetic symphony on Nairobi. The film will be showcased at re:publica’s labore:tory for the duration of the conference.

In cooperation with Electric South, Goethe-Institut South Africa and the European Film Market.

Stage L1
Wednesday, May 10, 2017 - 16:15 to 16:45
English
Talk
Everyone

Speakers

Initiatives & Partnerships
Projektleitung Digitale Lernangebote