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Cast
Olushola Adeyinka | As: Phyllis | |
Gboyega Babajide | As: Man on Staircase | |
Opeyemi Fajemirokun | As: Victim |
Storyline
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.
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Cast
Olushola Adeyinka |
Phyllis |
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Gboyega Babajide |
Man on Staircase |
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Opeyemi Fajemirokun |
Victim |
Directed By
Zina Saro-Wiwa |
Director |
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Writing Credits
Zina Saro-Wiwa |
Writer |
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Production Crew
Opeyemi Fajemirokun |
Associate Producer |
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Zina Saro-Wiwa |
Producer |
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Sese Somolu |
Producer |
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Edited By
Ben Grinberg |
Editor |
Costume and Makeup
Sound
Visual Effects
Camera
Zina Saro-Wiwa |
Director of Photography |
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Lighting
Art Department
Other Crew
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