“Faces|Voices” is a short documentary film collaboration between anthropologist Paul Basu and multimedia artists The Light Surgeons, commissioned as part of [Re:]Entanglements, a project funded by the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council, which is re-engaging with a remarkable ethnographic archive assembled by the colonial anthropologist, N. W. Thomas, in Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone between 1909 and 1915.
Faces|Voices is an initial audiovisual experiment for a video installation for the [Re:]Entanglements exhibition planned for 2020.
And is also the winner of “BEST RESEARCH FILM OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019” in the AHRC FILM AWARDS at BFI SOUTHBANK.
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