An Evening with Experimental Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu in Chicago Nov. 14

From Shadow and Act Fri Oct 31 2014, 15:08:33

Award winning avant garde Akosua Adoma Owusu has a mission. Her mission, in her own words, is to "through my filmmaking... open audiences up to a new dialogue between the continents of Africa and America; one that incorporates more than just stereotypes, but includes both conventionalized and un-conventionalized discourses of race in its service. By creating complex contradictions." But that's not all; she also hopes that, through her films, "a new meaning can emerge and be deposited into the universal consciousness. If I can do this by creating an experience for the audience that enables them to experience what it is like to find oneself, while being foreign...

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