Akosua Adoma Owusu
Akosua Adoma Owusu | |
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Alexandria (mul) , Silimin gɔli January 1, 1984 (run 40) | |
O ya Tiŋgbaŋ | Ghana America |
Education | |
Shikuru shɛli o ni chaŋ | California Institute of the Arts (en) University of Virginia (en) |
Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibu | Silmiinsili |
Tuma | |
Tuma | film director (en) , screenwriter (en) , film producer (en) , cinematographer (en) ni television producer (en) |
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Akosua Adoma Owusu (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Anashaara goli January 1, 1984) ka o nyɛ ŋun yaari ka produsiri filimnima.[1][2]
O chanila shikuru Harvard University mini Pratt Institute din be Brooklyn, New York.
O piligu mini Shikuru
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Owusu laamba nyɛla Ghananima ka bɛ wumsi o Alexandria, Virginia. Ŋuna n-nyɛ bi'bili o laamba bihi ata ni, ka o laamba nyɛ Grace mini Albert A. Owusu, Sr. Owusu malila shɛhira gbaŋ shɛli o ni deei School of Film/Video mini School of Fine Art nima sani California Institute of the Arts, ka o daa deei ki yuuni 2008.[3] O daa lahi deei "Bachelors interdisciplinary degree in Media Studies"[4] mini Studio Art shikuru yuli yuli booni University of Virginia yuuni 2005.[5] Owusu ni yɛn pili tuma o daa nyɛla ŋun tabiri sɔŋdi Chris Rock's HBO documentary[6] "Good Hair" (2009). Din nyaaŋa ka o daa pili o maŋmaŋa tuma, "experimental films".[7]
Selected exhibitions
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- 2020: Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle at the Museum of Modern Art Documentary Fortnight[8]
- 2019: Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle at Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans)[9]
- 2019: Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts[10]
- 2019: Between Three Worlds: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at REDCAT[11]
- 2019: Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts[12]
- 2019: Sala de Video: Akosua Adoma Owusu at the São Paulo Museum of Art[13][14]
- 2019: Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond[15]
- 2019: Screening: Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago[16]
- 2018: Triple Consciousness at BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels;[17]
- 2018: African Twilight at the Bowers Museum;[18]
- 2018: Fragments of a Dream at the McNay Art Museum;[19]
- 2018: Screening and Conversation with Director Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Fowler Museum at UCLA;[20][21]
- 2017: Akosua Adoma Owusu and Bus Nut at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center;[22]
- 2016: Making Africa: Akosua Adoma Owusu at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona[23][24]
- 2016: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at Tabakalera[25]
- 2016: Encuentro con Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León[26]
- 2016: L'évènement Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Centre Georges Pompidou[27]
- 2016: Triple Consciousness at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston[28][29]
- 2016: Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 at the Whitney Museum of American Art[30][31]
- 2015: Modern Mondays: An Evening with Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Museum of Modern Art[32]
- 2015: Existential Crisis at the Rochester Art Center[33]
- 2015: America Is Hard to See at the Whitney Museum of American Art[34][35]
- 2015: The Art of Hair in Africa at the Fowler Museum at UCLA[36]
- 2015: Two Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at Art and Practice [37] in association with the Hammer Museum[38]
- 2015: Do/Tell at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia[39]
- 2014: Prospect.3: Notes for Now New Orleans Triennial[40]
- 2013: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu at the Moderna Museet[41]
- 2012: Fore at the Studio Museum in Harlem[42]
- 2012: The Bearden Project at the Studio Museum in Harlem[43][44]
- 2011: VideoStudio: Changing Same at the Studio Museum in Harlem[45]
- 2011: Quadruple Consciousness at the Vox Populi (art gallery)[46]
- 2009: 30 Seconds Off an Inch at the Studio Museum in Harlem[47]
- 2009: Me Broni Ba at the Museum of Modern Art Documentary Fortnight [48]
Pina mini piibu
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Year | Award | Work | Category | Result | Ref. |
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2005 | Virginia Film Festival | Ajube Kete | Ken Jacobs Award for Best Experimental Short Film | Won | |
2008 | Berlin International Film Festival | Me Broni Ba/My White Baby | Berlinale Talent Campus | Won | |
2008 | California Institute of the Arts | Good Hair | Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Grant | Won | |
2008 | Detroit Docs | Intermittent Delight | Most Progressive Filmmaker Award | Won | |
2008 | Mexico International Film Festival | Me Broni Ba/My White Baby | Silver Palm Award | Won | |
2009 | Athens International Film and Video Festival | Me Broni Ba/My White Baby | Best Documentary Short | Won | |
2009 | Chicago Underground Film Festival | Me Broni Ba/My White Baby | Best Documentary Short | Won | |
2010 | Robert J. Flaherty Film Seminar | Work | Featured Artist | Won | |
2010 | Real Life Documentary Festival | Me Broni Ba/My White Baby | Special Jury Mention, Best Short Film | Won | |
2011 | Black Maria Film Festival | Drexciya | Jury's Citation Prize | Won | |
2011 | African Film Festival, Tarifa | Drexciya | Special Jury Mention | Won | |
2011 | Expresión en Corto International Film Festival | Drexciya | Best Experimental Short | Won | |
2012 | Focus Features Africa First | Kwaku Ananse | Production Grant | Won | |
2012 | Creative Capital Foundation | Black Sunshine | Film/Video Grant | Won | |
2012 | Art Matters Foundation | Kwaku Ananse | Post-Production Grant | Won | |
2013 | Ann Arbor Film Festival | Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful | Most Promising Filmmaker Prize | Won | |
2013 | Berlin International Film Festival | Kwaku Ananse | Golden Bear Best Short Film | Nominated | |
2013 | Africa Movie Academy Award | Kwaku Ananse | Best Short Film | Won | |
2013 | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma | Kwaku Ananse | Best Short Film of the Year | Won | |
2013 | Arte International Prize | Black Sunshine | Development Grant | Won | |
2013 | MacDowell Colony Fellowship | Black Sunshine | Screenwriting Grant | Won | |
2014 | Berlin International Film Festival | Black Sunshine | Production Grant | Won | |
2015 | Association Cinémas et Cultures d'Afrique | Kwaku Ananse | Special Jury Mention | Won | |
2015 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Black Sunshine | Guggenheim Fellowship | Won | |
2015 | Tribeca Film Institute | Black Sunshine | Tribeca All Access Development Grant | Won | |
2016 | Berlin International Film Festival | Reluctantly Queer | Golden Bear for Best Short Film | Nominated | |
2016 | Berlin International Film Festival | Reluctantly Queer | Teddy Award for Best Short Film | Nominated | |
2016 | Baltimore International Black Film Festival | Reluctantly Queer | Audience Award for Best International Short Film | Won | |
2016 | The Camargo Foundation | Save the Rex | Travel Grant | Won | |
2017 | Africa Movie Academy Award | On Monday of Last Week | Best Short Film | Nominated | |
2018 | Pratt Institute | On Monday of Last Week | Mellon Research Grant | Won | |
2018 | International Short Film Festival Oberhausen | Oberhausen Film Seminar | Featured Artist | Won | |
2018 | Goethe-Institut Vila Sul Salvador-Bahia | Black Sunshine | Artist-in-Residence | Won | |
2018 | Cobo Center Marquee Video Art Series | Intermittent Delight | John S. and James L. Knight Foundation | Won | |
2019 | Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts | Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle | The Westridge Foundation | Won |
Filimnima
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Filmography
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Year | Film | Role |
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2005 | Ajube Kete | writer, director, producer, cinematographer |
2006 | Tea 4 Two | director, producer, cinematographer |
2007 | Intermittent Delight | director, producer, cinematographer |
2008 | Revealing Roots | actress, director, producer |
2008 | Boyant: A Michael Jordan in a Speedo is Far Beyond the Horizon | actress, producer |
2009 | Me Broni Ba | director, producer, cinematographer |
2010-11 | Drexciya | director, producer, cinematographer |
2012 | Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful | director, producer |
2013 | Kwaku Ananse | writer, director, producer |
2015 | Bus Nut | director, producer, cinematographer |
2016 | Reluctantly Queer | director, producer, cinematographer |
2017 | On Monday of Last Week | writer, director, producer |
2018 | Mahogany Too | director, producer, cinematographer |
2019 | Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us | director, producer, cinematographer |
2019 | White Afro | director, producer, cinematographer |
2020 | King of Sanwi | director, producer, cinematographer |
in production | Black Sunshine (feature film) | writer, director, producer |
Karim pahi
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- Owusu, Akosua Adoma, and Adwoa Adu-Gyamfi. Me broni ba. New York, NY: Cinema Guild (2009).
- Baron, Jaimie. Inappropriate Bodies: Contemporary Filmmakers Challenging Gender Constructions through Appropriation. UCLA Center for the Study of Women (2009).
- Birchall, Danny. Things Said Again (2010) Film Quarterly Volume 63, Issue 3, pg. 55-57
- Nelmes, Jill. Introduction to Film Studies (2012)
- Dovey, Lindiwe. African Feminist Engagements with Film (2012) , p. 18-23.
- Mask, Mia, Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies (2012).
- Kendall, Nzingha, Commentary: Haunting in Akosua Adoma Owusu's Short Experimental Films (2013). Black Camera
- Agyeman, Erica. Akosua Adoma Owusu: Exploring 'Threeness Archived 2021-05-09 at the Wayback Machine, The International Review of African American Art 24.3 (2013), 11–13.
- Prabhu, Anjali. Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora (2014).
- Laderman, David. Sampling Media (2014).
- UNESCO. Égalité des genres: patrimoine et créativité (2014).
- Ellerson, Beti. Gaze Regimes: Film And Feminisms In Africa (2015)
- Johnson, Elizabeth. Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas (2016) , p. 113.
- Kelly, Gabrielle. Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through (2018)
- Lené Hole, Kristin. Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction (2018).
- Bisschoff, Lizelle. Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic. (2019).
- Nyeck, S.N. Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies (2019).
- Williams, James S. Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty (2019).
- Dasilva, Dax. Age of Union: Igniting The Changemaker (2020).
- Huberman, Anthony. Abbas to Yuki: Writing Alongside Exhibitions (2020).
External links
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Kundivihira
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- ↑ Akosua Adoma Owusu talks about triple consciousness.
- ↑ MacArthur, Julie (18 September 2019). The Aesthetics of Triple Consciousness.
- ↑ 40 Festivals and Counting: Me Broni Ba (my white baby) on the Film Circuit (21 July 2010).
- ↑ Govil, Nitin. School of Cinematic Arts.
- ↑ University of Virginia Arts Magazine - Akosua Adoma Owusu.
- ↑ ME BRONI BA (MY WHITE BABY) - Cinema Guild Non-Theatrical.
- ↑ Fowler In Focus: The Art of Hair in Africa.
- ↑ MoMA Documentary Fortnight (en-US).
- ↑ Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans.
- ↑ Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.
- ↑ REDCAT.
- ↑ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
- ↑ Video room: Akosua Adoma Owusu.
- ↑ Afro-Atlantic Histories.
- ↑ Institute for Contemporary Art.
- ↑ Screening: Akosua Adoma Owusu.
- ↑ Triple Consciousness: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu.
- ↑ African Twilight.
- ↑ Fragments of a Dream.
- ↑ On Monday of Last Week.
- ↑ Akosua Adoma Owusu - John Simon Memorial Foundation.
- ↑ Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.
- ↑ New Voices of African Cinema - Akosua Adoma Owusu.
- ↑ Making Africa - Akosua Adoma Owusu.
- ↑ Tabakalera.
- ↑ Encuentro con Akosua Adoma Owusu (7 April 2016).
- ↑ L'évènement Akosua Adoma Owusu.
- ↑ Triple Consciousness: Films of Akosua Adoma Owusu (26 October 2016).
- ↑ Billy Woodberry - Bless Their Little Hearts (26 October 2016).
- ↑ Dreamlands: Afrofuturism - Whitney Museum.
- ↑ Dreamlands: Pain Revisited - Whitney Museum.
- ↑ An Evening With Akosua Adoma Owusu - MoMA.
- ↑ Rochester Art Center.
- ↑ America is Hard To See.
- ↑ 24700 News from CalArts (20 April 2015).
- ↑ Fowler in Focus: The Art of Hair in Africa.
- ↑ In Conversation: Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Akosua Adoma Owusu with Jamillah James.
- ↑ Off-Site Program: In Conversation: Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Akosua Adoma Owusu (24 September 2015).
- ↑ Do/Tell (en-US) (8 March 2015).
- ↑ Prospect.3 (en-US).
- ↑ CinemAfrica - Moderna Museet (en-US).
- ↑ Fore - Smithsonian Libraries (en-US).
- ↑ Beardenmania (en-US).
- ↑ The Bearden Project (in English). OCLC 841590034. Retrieved 2012-12-20 – via WorldCat.
- ↑ VideoStudio: Changing Same (en-US).
- ↑ Quadruple Consciousness (en-US).
- ↑ A Beating Heart of Social Import (en-US).
- ↑ MoMA Documentary Fortnight (en-US).
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