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Frances Bodomo | Writer/Director

Frances Bodomo is a Ghanaian filmmaker who grew up in Ghana, Norway, California, and Hong Kong before moving to New York City to study film at Columbia University (BA) and the Tisch School of the Arts (MFA). Her goal is to make conceptually strong films that bring fresh African images to the international forefront. 

Her first short film, Boneshaker (starring Oscar-nominee Quvenzhané Wallis), premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and played at over 20 film festivals including Telluride, SXSW, LA Film Fest, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Her latest short film, Afronauts (recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Production Grant & Spike Lee Fellowship), will premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. She is developing the feature version of the film. 

She was most recently accepted into the 2014 Berlin Talents program. @tobogganeer

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#FilmmakerFriday | Frances Bodomo

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Tell us about a project you’re currently working.

I’m currently working on my first feature film, based on my short film Afronauts (which premiered at Sundance and the Berlinale in 2014). It’s about a group of Zambians who, in the 1960s, attempted to make it to the moon in spite of their lack of access to the cutting-edge technology of the time.

I’m really proud of the short film because it’s the film that taught me artistic perseverance. It was really hard on my collaborators and myself to create a hot summer desert on a cold beach in New Jersey! We walked away from the shoot with barely enough to stitch a film together. Editing took months & included a lot of pensive breaks. My editor, the uber-talented Sara Shaw, and I went down many crazy paths to come to the one we picture-locked on. We were so sure and so unsure. We sent it out into the world knowing we had stuck to our guns, but not knowing what it would be in the eyes of others. It’s been an exhilarating, surprising ride ever since.

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THE NEXT ECONOMY: International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam calls for projects from Africa

by Edgar Pieterse

“The mainstream hype around the strong GDP growth of many African countries over the past fifteen years belies the fact that very few decent jobs are being created and income inequality is alarming, and worsening. It is shortsighted and ignorant to think that the fortunes of the majority of urban Africans will be improved through “more of the same” models of economic growth. A paradigm shift is needed, and urgently.  As IABR–2016–The Next Economy’s Curator Statement suggests, such a new paradigm must serve the majority of people and nature in an integral way, which demands “an active re-imagining of the city, a redesign of its underlying logic, its system and the way it is arranged both spatially, organizationally and financially.” Thus, the IABR-2016-THE NEXT ECONOMY provides a fantastic opportunity for African urban designers, architects, landscape architects, academics, artists, planners, cities, universities, companies and social organizations, or coalitions thereof, to submit best practices, projects and plans that contribute towards or illuminate the dimensions of a new imagination for the African City  in response to the IABRs’ global call for projects.”

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Dakar le 26 mai 2014. Selly Raby Kane, fashion designer, envahit l'ancienne gare ferroviaire de Dakar avec ses créatures mi alien mi cartoon. Le photographe ivoirien Paul Sika, le collectif de Ouakam Les Petites Pierres, sont mis à contribution pour faire le show et remettre au centre l'énergie urbaine dakaroise !

Vitra Design Museum, Basel, 2015. Making Africa - A continent of Contemporary Design.

Ce soir : Achille Mbembe en discussion avec Elsa Dorlin, Éric Fassin et Nacira Guénif-Souilamas

Jeudi 17 octobre 2013, 18.00-20.00 - Salle D02, Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis.

C’est une rencontre intéressante car Achille Mbembe vient présenter son dernier ouvrage au Laboratoire des Théories du Politique de l’Université de Paris Saint-Denis et discute avec trois chercheurs importants qui interrogent sans cesse la marge et l’ailleurs pour décortiquer les mécanismes politiques économiques et sociaux à l’œuvre dans la société française contemporaine.

Sept 2. #64bitsandmalachite

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Roy Decarava & Langston Hughes, 1955

"I don't write because I was segregated and humiliated and dispossessed. I write in spite of that." - Toni Morrison