Phyllis (2011)
Phyllis (2011)
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 Olushola Adeyinka As: Phyllis
Gboyega Babajide Gboyega Babajide As: Man on Staircase
Opeyemi Fajemirokun Opeyemi Fajemirokun As: Victim
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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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Genres: Fantasy, Drama

Language: No Language

Release Date: 07 April 2011

Country: NG, GB

Runtime: 16m

Company Credits

Company: ZSW Studios

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Production Crew

Opeyemi Fajemirokun

Opeyemi Fajemirokun

Associate Producer

Zina Saro-Wiwa

Zina Saro-Wiwa

Producer

Sese Somolu

Sese Somolu

Producer

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Zina Saro-Wiwa

Zina Saro-Wiwa

Director of Photography

Lighting

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