“Instead of ‘Africanizing’ Western stories, I’m interested in reclaiming African history rendering them into what is happening in the present day.”
Akosua Adoma Owusu
Mahogany Too (super 8 transfer to video), 2018, 3’
Reluctantly Queer (super 8 transfer to video), 2016, 8’
Kwaku Ananse, 2013, 25’
Bus Nut (16mm film and super-8 transfer to video), 2015, 7’
Me Broni Ba [My White Baby] (16mm film to digital video), 2009, 22’
“Akosua Adoma Owusu (1984) is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker, producer and cinematographer whose films address the collision of identities. Interpreting the notion of ‘double consciousness’ coined by sociologist and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois to define the experience of black Americans negotiating a sense of selfhood in the face of discrimination and cultural dislocation, Owusu aims to create a third cinematic space or consciousness. In her works, feminism, queerness and African identities interact in African, white American, and black American cultural environments.”
Bozar