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Datum: Zaterdag 10 juli 2021 om 21:00 uur
Locatie: Melkweg Cinema
Titel: Elder's Corner
Regisseur: Siji Awoyinka
Land: Nigeria en Verenigde Staten
Jaar: 2021
Lengte: 97 min
Taal: Yorubá and English
Voorfilm: No Archive Can Restore You (2020, 6', dir. Onyeka Igwe)
Inleiding: Leila Aigbedion (Miss Africa Netherlands)
Tickets: www.melkweg.nl/elderscorner
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Wanneer Siji Awoyinka, een jonge Brits-Nigeriaanse muziekfan, de schokkende ontdekking doet dat veel Nigeriaanse muziekiconen geen kopieën van hun eigen opnames bezitten, keert hij terug naar Lagos om ze opnieuw op te nemen. Deze film beschrijft de muziek - van juju tot Afrobeat en alles daartussenin - en de parallellen met de sociaal-politieke evolutie van Nigeria vanaf de koloniale jaren vijftig tot de nationalistische beweging en onafhankelijkheid in de jaren zestig. Zeldzaam archiefmateriaal kleurt deze tour vol optredens door de geschiedenis van de nationale muziek van Nigeria.
“The tumult Nigeria has faced in the post-World War II era makes for sober reading. From new-dawn optimism following liberation from colonial rule in 1960, to the bloodshed of the 67-70 Biafran War and the subsequent see-saw between military and civilian rule, Nigeria has been far from politically steady. A constant amid the frequent chaos, however, has been the brilliance of the country’s music, which has continued to course through the nation’s veins irrepressibly and defiantly; a flickering flame of hope in even the darkest of chapters. The various movements, from the Caribbean calypso-meets-jazz influence of High Life through to Afrobeat and everything in between, Nigerian song has popped, throbbed and reverberated as the soundtrack to changing times. Elder’s Corner, a documentary by London-born Nigerian Siji Awoyinka, not only gathers many of the surviving greats of Nigerian music to re-record their lost songs, but weaves their individual stories within the broader picture of Nigeria as it raced through the second half of the twentieth century (Source: Ubiquarian.net).
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Het voormalige gebouw van de Nigerian Film Unit, een van de eerste zelfbesturende buitenposten van de Britse visuele propagandamachine, de Colonial Film Unit, staat leeg aan Ikoyi Road, Lagos, in de schaduw van het huidige gebouw van de Nigerian Film Corporation. De kamers zijn vol stof, spinnenwebben, stilstaande klokken en roestige en rottende filmblikken. Tussen deze blikken werd in 2015 een lang verloren gewaande Nigeriaanse filmklassieker gevonden: Shehu Umar (1976). De films die in dit gebouw zijn ondergebracht zijn moeilijk te bekijken vanwege hun toestand, maar misschien ook omdat mensen ze niet willen zien. Ze onthullen een koloniaal residu, dat wordt weerspiegeld in de muren van het gebouw zelf. De korte film No Archive Can Restore You, ontleend aan het boek van Juliette Singh uit 2018, toont de ruimtelijke configuratie van dit koloniale archief, dat net buiten het zicht ligt, in het hart van het Lagosiaanse stadsbeeld. Ondanks zijn onzichtbaarheid bevat het etterende beelden die we niet kunnen, willen of niet willen zien. De film verbeeldt 'verloren' films uit het archief in kenmerkende 'soundscapes', afgewisseld met beelden van het verlaten interieur en exterieur van het gebouw. Dit is een verkenning van de 'sonische schaduwen' die koloniale bewegende beelden blijven genereren.
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Africadelic is een non-profit organisatie die zich inzet voor het stimuleren van (het bewustzijn over) de culturele creativiteit en diversiteit in en uit Afrika en de Afrikaanse diaspora. Het Africadelic Festival is een jaarlijks evenement rondom Internationale Afrikadag op 25 mei. Door middel van concerten, films en talks biedt het festival een reflectie op de staat van Afrika en een viering van de culturele creativiteit uit het continent en de diaspora.
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Date: Saturday 10 July 2021 at 9pm
Location: Melkweg Cinema
Title: Elder's Corner
Director: Siji Awoyinka
Country: Nigeria and United States
Year: 2021
Length: 97 min
Language: Yorubá and English
Supporting film: No Archive Can Restore You (2020, 6', dir. Onyeka Igwe)
Introduction: Leila Aigbedion (Miss Africa Netherlands)
Tickets: www.melkweg.nl/elderscorner
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When Siji Awoyinka, a young London-born Nigerian music fan, makes the shocking discovery that many Nigerian musical icons don’t possess copies of their own recordings, he returns to Lagos to re-record them. This film chronicles the music – from juju to Afrobeat and everything in between – and its parallels to Nigeria’s socio-political evolution from the colonial 1950s through the nationalist movement and independence in the ’60s. Rare archival footage colors this performance-rich tour through the history of the nation’s music.
“The tumult Nigeria has faced in the post-World War II era makes for sober reading. From new-dawn optimism following liberation from colonial rule in 1960, to the bloodshed of the 67-70 Biafran War and the subsequent see-saw between military and civilian rule, Nigeria has been far from politically steady. A constant amid the frequent chaos, however, has been the brilliance of the country’s music, which has continued to course through the nation’s veins irrepressibly and defiantly; a flickering flame of hope in even the darkest of chapters. The various movements, from the Caribbean calypso-meets-jazz influence of High Life through to Afrobeat and everything in between, Nigerian song has popped, throbbed and reverberated as the soundtrack to changing times. Elder’s Corner, a documentary by London-born Nigerian Siji Awoyinka, not only gathers many of the surviving greats of Nigerian music to re-record their lost songs, but weaves their individual stories within the broader picture of Nigeria as it raced through the second half of the twentieth century (Source: Ubiquarian.net).
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The former Nigerian Film Unit building, which was one of the first self-directed outposts of the British visual propaganda engine, the Colonial Film Unit, stands empty on Ikoyi Road, Lagos, in the shadow of today’s Nigerian Film Corporation building. The rooms are full of dust, cobwebs, stopped clocks, and rusty and rotting celluloid film cans. Amongst these cans, a long-lost classic of Nigerian filmmaking, Shehu Umar (1976) was found in 2015. The films housed in this building are hard to see because of their condition, but also perhaps because people do not want to see them. They reveal a colonial residue, that is echoed in walls of the building itself. Taking its title from the 2018 Juliette Singh book, No Archive Can Restore You depicts the spatial configuration of this colonial archive, which lies just out of view, in the heart of the Lagosian cityscape. Despite its invisibility, it contains purulent images that we cannot, will not, or choose not to see. The film imagines 'lost' films from the archive in distinctive soundscapes, juxtaposed with images of the abandoned interior and exteriors of the building. This is an exploration into the 'sonic shadows' that colonial moving images continue to generate.
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Africadelic is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of the cultural creativity and diversity in and from Africa and the African diaspora. The Africadelic Festival is an annual event surrounding International Africa Day on May 25. Through concerts, films and talks, the festival reflects on the state of Africa and celebrates the cultural creativity of the continent and the diaspora.
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