The Lost Okoroshi
15
Why watch?
“If you're interested in carnival and the roots of carnival, you'll be really interested in this film. It's about a young man in Nigeria who wakes up and finds his identity forever changed. And it's a film which explores those barriers between the world of our ancestors, the spiritual world, the world of masquerade and the so-called world of reality, and asks how permeable those boundaries are. It's got an awesome soundtrack. It will continually surprise you. It's also funny.”
Emily Zobel Marshall,
Professor in Postcolonial Literature at Leeds Beckett University
Meet Bunty May Marshall, our Folklore season artist!
Haunted by dreams of an ancestral Okoroshi masquerade, a disillusioned security guard begins to receive messages from the traditional Igbo spirit. One morning, he wakes up to find himself transformed into a mute purple spirit, fated to embark on a spiritual journey through the sprawling city of Lagos.
Filmmaker Abba Makama's brilliant surrealist romp debunks Western-influenced misconceptions of traditional masquerades, presenting ancestral spirits as superheroes who shouldn’t be feared but venerated and in fact welcomed, as they are spirits of the ancestors (the Igbo word for Masquerade, Mmanwu, loosely translates to spirit of the dead/ancestor) who bear good fortune.
We're also extremely pleased to host an extended introduction about West African Masquerades by Emily Zobel Marshall, Professor in Postcolonial Literature at Leeds Beckett University.
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The more individual films you see in this season the more money you save.
• See two different films, save 15%
• See three different films, save 20%
• See four or more different films, save 25%
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