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Nollywood © Pieter Hugo
Nollywood © Pieter Hugo
Vanaf Zaterdag 09 januari 2010 tot Zondag 07 februari 2010
Amsterdam -
Cokkie Snoei presenteert, zowel in Amsterdam als Rotterdam, werk van Pieter Hugo. In Amsterdam is het werk 'Nollywood' te zien en in Rotterdam beelden van de series 'Wild Honey Collectors' en 'Boy Scouts'
Het engelstalige persbericht:
During his journeys through West Africa, Pieter Hugo has been confronted very often with Nigerian movies. Wherever he went, people were watching them. These movies are shot, edited and distributed in a period of a couple of days. No wonder Nollywood seems to be the third biggest film industry after Hollywood and Bollywood. Actors often receive the script on the day of the shooting, so there is no time to prepare for the role and character or immersing in the role.
Pieter Hugo first regarded these films as soap operas but than he started realizing that they were interesting in their own way because they were in many respects among the first examples of contemporary, mass media self-representation in Africa. These are movies made by Africans for Africans, with their own stories; the films are rooted in contemporary culture and a mass self-representation at the same time.
While Hugo was shooting the last part of The Hyena and Other Men, he shot one or two images on Nigerian film sets. While he was there, he met Gabazzini Zuo, who is a make-up artist. Zuo assisted on the project. He helped Pieter preparing costumes and make-up. In the process of constructing the images they became something very different from what could have been seen in the beginning as a quasi-documentation of Nollywood. In the project all was very organic, there was a synergy between the actors, the sets, the scenario of Nigerian film sets and then Pieter Hugo as a director, as a catalyst. The tableaux of the series confront us with a verisimilar world: the situations are clearly surreal, although they could be real on a set.
While ‘Nollywood’ can be seen at Cokkie Snoei Amsterdam, Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam shows some images from the series ‘Wild Honey Collectors’ and ‘Boy Scouts’.
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| Plaats: | Amsterdam |
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