White Afro
Synopsis
A barber-school training video on how to give a white client an “Afro,” White Afro is the final film in Owusu’s Hair Trilogy.
United States, English
Cast & Crew
Directed & Produced by Akosua Adoma Owusu
Edited by King Z
Sound Design & Mix by Kari Rae Seekins
Music by Manhyia Tete Nnwomkoro
Performance: Nana Saah Adwubi Kete
Voice Over: Nana Saah Adwubi Kete
Archival Voice: Dick Plume & Bill Cosby
Awards & Recognition
• Premio Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Prize — Locarno Film Festival
• Screen Slate Best of 2020
Selected Screenings
• Locarno Film Festival
• MoMA Documentary Fortnight
• Concorto Film Festival
• Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
• Art Cinema OFFoff: ‘What a Machine!’
• Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts
• 56th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (Work-in-Progress, 2010)
• Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
• Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
• Ann Arbor Film Festival
Platform Premiere
MUBI— Hair Trilogy Premiere
Locarno Film Festival — Shorts Weeks
Selected Writing
• Talking Shorts
• Found Footage Magazine
• Film Explorer
• Cut Frames, Captured Pixels: Found Footage Film & Video – Cinematic Surfaces
“This film definitively confirms the extremely original and innovative work of this internationally renowned artist… redefining the boundaries between video art and cinema.” — Charlotte Corchète, Locarno Film Festival