2021: Future Tense

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In this episode of our 2021 video series, poet, writer, and designer Poetra Asantewa ponders over the future of the city of Accra, what it ought to look like, where it ought to be, and who it should aim to be.

Faith and Fury EP by Poetra Asantewa

For the 2021 edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF, Norient commissioned ten artists around the world to work on short artistic media pieces. They were asked to reflect on their personal thoughts of «2021». How do they see and describe the world they live in? How do they see the present and the future? What sounds, clips, media pieces, and thoughts give hope for «2021» and for the future? What makes them angry, hopeful, depressed, suicidal, or happy?

Biography

Poetra Asantewa is a Ghanaian poet and writer. Her work, both on the page and on the stage, engages issues of feminism, inequality, and mental health in her community. Her chapbook «You Too Will Know Me» is part of the New Generation African Poetry Chapbook set, and her debut poetry book will be published by Eccobooks in 2021. She is the founder of Tampered Pressand co-founder of Black Girls Glow. Follow her on Instagram, Facebook, X, Youtube, Spotify, SoundCloud, or on her Website.

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Henry Desouza Nelson is a Ghanaian creator based primarily in Accra. He is well-versed in film, photography, graphic design, and sound. He has an eye for good art and has worked with organizations like GGBL, Swiss Embassy, UNICEF, T TEL, ARAAP, Uber Ghana, Afrochella and many others. Follow him on Instagram, LinkedIn, or on his Website.

Published on February 02, 2021

Last updated on April 10, 2024

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2021: Beautiful Life

Video Essay

by Monofee

In this episode of our 2021 video series, Taiwanese multimedia artist Monofee uses the medium of silent cinema to present a narrative of hope, conflict, and uncertainty over the turn of the new year.

The short film was set in the artists home of Banqiao 板橋, New Taipei, Taiwan. The characters of Monofee and Olammy struggle under the shadow of ominous futures, threatening family, and security and opening into an unknown 2021.

Credits

Story, Direction, Illustrations: Monofee
Editting, FX: awe IX
Camera: 安E堂
Music: Monofee
Starring: Monofee, Olammy, Tommy?

awe IX is a visual artist who has worked alongside various musicians and runs the collective Quantum Natives. They have exhibited and performed worldwide, including at ISSUE Project Rooms New York, ICA London, and KW Institute Berlin, as well as across Europe and East Asia. Follow Awe IX on Tumblr.

For the 2021 edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF, Norient commissioned ten artists around the world to work on short artistic media pieces. They were asked to reflect on their personal thoughts of «2021». How do they see and describe the world they live in? How do they see the present and the future? What sounds, clips, media pieces, and thoughts give hope for «2021» and for the future? What makes them angry, hopeful, depressed, suicidal, or happy?

Biography

Monofee is a multimedia artist. She produces work of dreamy melancholy cut through with a heartbreaking innocence. Their debut EP «Forest of Feelings» was released in February 2019 on Quantum Natives, and they have since contributed to compilations from Edited Arts and Eternal Dragonz. Last year they composed the original soundtrack to Dafa Metti, a documentary by Tal Amiran following the struggle of Senegalese migrants in Paris. Follow her on Instagram, and SoundCloud.

Published on February 04, 2021

Last updated on April 10, 2024

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The F.r.iction Show

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by Eden Tinto Collins,

Gystère

For the Norient Film Festival NFF, multi-disciplinary artists Gystère and Eden Tinto Collins created a feature-length video collage. In The F.r.iction Show they wish, through fiction, to expose a combination of images and a multitude of points of view.

The work is inspired by the denkyem, one of the Adinkra symbols of the Akan people. It is the one that holds the attention and the ethical and spiritual direction of the main thread of this film-collage. This symbol takes part of the «logo» Gystère and Eden created «vous l’aurez voulu». Denkyem means unity in diversity. The F.r.iction Show juxtaposes the creations of both Gystère and Eden Tinto Collins as the result of a global reflection in process around a musical identity borrowed from different Afro-Eurasian cultures. But it is also a proposal of context for this music to emerge, out of the Space.

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00:00–05:18: Spectacles – Tribute to Harry Bellafonte, and Vanilla Sky, with Giuliano Ponturo & Eden Tinto Collins. Une paire de lunette au travers de laquelle la pleine conscience devient

5:19–16:45: CoNec, Eden Tinto Collins & Giuliano Ponturo

16:49–19:39: Gystère Show, Épisode 2

19:39–30:35: Le galèrien du 77, Marin Fouqué et Eden Tinto Collins

30:36–34:33: Mxnsplanation, Gystère

34:34–36:57: Tribute to Antônio Carlos Jobim et Newton Mendonça – Caminhos Cruzados Giuliano Ponturo, Lapin Everfly Eden Tinto Collins

36:59–37:49: Medley – Maboula Soumahoro et Danielle Dean Autour du centre @LafayetteAnticipation – Lep ça- Association de Partage Inter-Continents pour l'Afrique

37:54–48:15: Pour que tu scrolles encore – For You to Scroll Again Eden Tinto Collins

48:16–53:34: DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson – Tout S'assemble, Gystère

53:35–55:45: Gystère Show, Épisode 1

55:46–56:11: White Noise and the Black Body/Block: Tribute to Geofrroy de Lagasgnerie et Francis Dupuis Déri

56:12–1:01:36: Womxn, the nightmare of you know who, Eden Tinto Collins & Adrien Gystère Peskine

1:01:37–1:06:40: Caprice sur le départ d'un être aimé. Nicolas Worms & Eden Tinto Collins

1:01:41–1:13:32: «My Jinji» Sunset Rollercoaster, Gystère

1:13:33–1:21:16: Strange Breathing, Anthony Peskine & Gystère

This video has been commissioned by Norient in the context of the 10. Norient Film Festival NFF 2021.

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Eden Tinto Collins developed her practice of fine arts through the National School of Fine Arts of Paris Cergy and during her internship in Ghana in the structure directed by Bibie Brew at the New Morning. Poetician and hyper-media artist, she explores in a horizontal wave of collaborations the notions of interdependency, f.r.ictions between melancholia, mythology, and post/trans/cyber/humanity. Her language is imaginal as she creates moments of care, staged and set through music, activated by re-enactment. She appears in several groups and projects such as Black(s)tothefuture, the Gystère Live Gang, Yoke Collectif, Numin. Follow her on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or Vimeo.

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Gystère made its debut in the 2000s by accumulating projects and captivated by keyboards and multi-track tape, or used to jams and open mics between Paris, Bahia and N.Y.C. As half of the pop duo Mc Luvin, Gystère even does a lap on the mainstream circuit, with major signing and opening acts for Saul Williams, Yuksek, or Stromae. He then returned to his role as a multi-disciplinary artist: songwriter, DJ, music video director or pianist for Cerrone, the Jamel Comedy Club, or the Grand Journal. Follow him on Instagram, Youtube, Spotify, Facebook, SoundCloud, or on his Website or

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Published on January 26, 2021

Last updated on April 29, 2024

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