Square Stories Too
Salem Mekuria has filmed regularly at the Maskal Plein in Addis Ababa since 2007. Square Stories Too has three separate channels that provide a very diverse impression of the bustling square. Image and sound regularly zoom in to add detail. The film is a square unto itself.
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Flies.
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Epicura
Moody, night-time walks that don’t always seem to have a purpose. In Brazzaville there is always something up. Melancholy wanderers. -
The Bridge
Filmmaker looks out of his window onto the tough life outside because it’s not any old bridge he lives beside and not any old South… -
Excuse Me, While I Disappear
A Chinese city in Africa. Innumerable square metres in exchange for oil. An employee is followed around the scarcely inhabited city. Until he disappea
Film details
- Countries of production
- Ethiopia, USA
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 25'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
