Nigeria / 2014 / 2mins / Experimental, Visual Folktale / Igbo

This contemporary visual folktale is rooted in concepts of loss, leaving, and loneliness. Emezi collaborated with her father to translate the voiceover, originally written in English, into Igbo, and narrated it herself as an exercise in engaging with the lost fluency of her language.

Akwaeke Emezi

Akwaeke Emezi is an lgbo and Tamil writer and video artist, best known for their debut novel Freshwater and is a 2018 National Book Foundation ‘5 Under 35’ honoree. Born in Umuahia and raised in Aba, Nigeria, Emezi was awarded a Global Arts Fund grant in 2017 for the video art in their project The Unblinding, and a Sozopol Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction. Learn More