A CRAB DOES NOT GIVE BIRTH TO A BIRD: NII KWATE OWOO ON HIS FILMS AND FORMATIVE INFLUENCES An Interview by Jeanne-Ange Wagne
For his short essayistic documentary You Hide Me (1970), Ghanaian filmmaker Nii Kwate Owoo conducted a cinematic inventory of the African artifacts tucked away in the basement of the British Museum. As a graduate of the London Film School, he was granted access to the institution’s depot for one single day. As Oliver Hardt emphasizes in a contribution to our current issue, the questions Owoo asked back then – for example, questions about expertise, access, and equity – sound familiar today. Whereas Hardt writes about Owoo’s film in the context of other pioneering cinematic contributions to the restitution debate, the following interview by Jeanne-Ange Wagne focuses on the development of Owoo’s artistic practice and its roots in Ghana’s struggle for independence from British colonial power.
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