Argentine Signal
An adventurous performance where analogue projectors and film reels meet with amplified video signals.
45'
IFFR 2020
The Nest Collective is a multidisciplinary arts collective from Nairobi that has been creating works in film, music, fashion and visual art since 2012. As part of the IFFR 2018 Pan-African Cinema Today (PACT) programme, we showed the wide range of their film and video works. We invited them to make new work for IFFR 2020.
Tapi! is a short documentary that explores a formative moment in the life of Kenyan ritual healer Jackson, one of the last practitioners of the ritual healing practice called utapishi ('tapi'). The leaders of the local Christian church are not happy with the influence of the ritual and decide to go to court. Jackson pushes back against the threat of tapi's prohibition by local Christian church movements who seem to be determined to erase the complex history of a people.
Part of African Collectives Project, commissioned by IFFR. Screens together with Kmêdeus.
IFFR 2020
- 20'
- Kenya
- 2020
- Director
- Jim Chuchu
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Kenya
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 20'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- English, Kiswahili
- Producers
- Njoki Ngumi, Njeri Gitungo
- Production Company
- The Nest Arts Company Limited
- Sales
- The Nest Arts Company Limited
- Screenplay
- Jim Chuchu
- Cinematography
- Noel Kasyoka
- Editor
- Jim Chuchu
- Sound Design
- Mars Maasai, Jim Chuchu
- Music
- Jim Chuchu
- Cast
- Vitalis Waweru, Derrick Wambugu , Neville Misati
- Director
- Jim Chuchu
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Kenya
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 20'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- English, Kiswahili
- Producers
- Njoki Ngumi, Njeri Gitungo
- Production Company
- The Nest Arts Company Limited
- Sales
- The Nest Arts Company Limited
- Screenplay
- Jim Chuchu
- Cinematography
- Noel Kasyoka
- Editor
- Jim Chuchu
- Sound Design
- Mars Maasai, Jim Chuchu
- Music
- Jim Chuchu
- Cast
- Vitalis Waweru, Derrick Wambugu , Neville Misati
Programme IFFR 2020
Synergetic
This programme brings together work by film and art collectives that decentralise the mainstream narrative by providing us with alternative histories, presenting other ways of working and other ways of seeing.
Read more about this programmeArmonia
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9'
USA
IFFR 2020
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The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure and sublimation are non-negotiable.
22'
USA
IFFR 2020