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Phyllis (2011)
Directed by Zina Saro-Wiwa
Fantasy, Drama · 16m
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.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Zina Saro-Wiwa
- Writer
- Zina Saro-Wiwa
- Director of Photography
- Zina Saro-Wiwa
- Editor
- Ben Grinberg
- Producer
- Zina Saro-Wiwa, Sese Somolu
Details
- Release date
- 2011-04-07
- Runtime
- 16m
- Genres
- Fantasy, Drama
- Original language
- XX
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- Nigeria, United Kingdom
- Production
- ZSW Studios