Phyllis
Phyllis is a moving and atmospheric portrait of a ‘psychic’ vampire, a woman obsessed with synthetic Nollywood dramas, that lives alone in Lagos, Nigeria. The central idea of this short experimental film is the practise and significance of wig-wearing in Nollywood film; a practise the director has invested with deeper psychological as well as science-fiction layers. Underpinning this central idea however is a critique of the unforgiving treatment of single women in Nollywood and Nigeria. The film is an example of what the director, Zina Saro-Wiwa, has termed “alt-Nollywood”, a genre that plays with and reworks certain narrative, stylistic and visual conventions of Nollywood. Phyllis explores the gothic possibilities of the Nollywood aesthetic creating a new kind of low-budget atmospheric film that is very much of Nollywood and yet subverts the genre. Using Nollywood to subvert Nollywood.
Year: 2011
Studio: ZSW Studios
Director: Zina Saro-Wiwa
Cast: Olushola Adeyinka, Gboyega Babajide, Opeyemi Fajemirokun
Crew: Zina Saro-Wiwa (Director), Ben Grinberg (Editor), Zina Saro-Wiwa (Producer), Opeyemi Fajemirokun (Associate Producer), Sese Somolu (Producer), Zina Saro-Wiwa (Writer)
Runtime: 16 minutes
Release: Apr 07, 2011
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Country: Nigeria, United Kingdom
Language: No Language
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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