Baby Girl2011
10 min
Video, color, sound
Shot with my sister and my father in Houston, Texas, we communicate only with words from different cultures, the different places we are from, Houston, London, Asia, and Nigeria.

Sources: Singleton, John, Baby Boy, Columbia Pictures, 2001; CNN Africa News, 2012, 2008; hooks, bell, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations, Chapter 10; Seduced by Violence No More, Rutledge, 1994; hooks, bell, Love as the practice of freedom, (in reference to Martin Lufther King Jr.), Rutledge, 1994; BBC News, 2012, 2008; Radiohead, Video Tape, 2008

Shot references: Nigerian film (Nollywood); Blackberry Babes, Obong Bassey Inyan, Simony International Ltd, 2011; Living in Bondage, Chris Obi Rapu, 1992

Writer, performer: Ashstress De Shauwn Agwunobi
Writer, performer: Okechukwu Alex Agwunobi
Performer: Ashley De’shae Carner
Performer: Robert Earl Carner
Performer: Christopher Demond-Breaux
Co-director, camera, lighting, editorial advisor: Sean Grattan
Sound mix: Ashish Dha
Sound work: Francisco Janes



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