UNITED KINGDOM · 2015

We Need New Names

Onyeka Igwe
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A work examining contemporary Nigerian diasporic female identity through the contradictions inherent to an ethnographic reading of the funeral of the filmmakers’ family matriarch. Using personal archive to explore the concepts of female identity, diaspora, cultural memory and most importantly ‘fiction’.

Year2015
CountryUnited Kingdom
DirectorOnyeka Igwe
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