Drexciya

Ghana | 2010 | 12 | ProRes

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    Juror Presentation - Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu
    Screening Room - Michigan Theater Fri, Mar 29, 2019 1:00 PM
    A 15 minute Q&A with filmmakers in attendance will follow the screening.
    Cast/Crew Info
    Director:Akosua Adoma Owusu

    Description

    This film portrays an abandoned public swimming facility in Accra, Ghana, set on the Riviera. A short documentary, it was inspired by Afrofuturist myths propagated by the underground Detroit-based band Drexciya. The myths suggest that Drexciya is a mythical underwater subcontinent populated by the unborn children of African women thrown overboard during the transatlantic slave trade. These children have adapted and evolved to breathe underwater.