short film – Creative Interruptions https://creativeinterruptions.net Tue, 28 May 2019 16:48:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://creativeinterruptions.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-icon_ipad_retina-32x32.jpg short film – Creative Interruptions https://creativeinterruptions.net 32 32 The Kola in Sally Fenaux Barleycorn’s film, Unburied https://creativeinterruptions.net/the-kola-in-sally-fenaux-barleycorns-film-unburied/ https://creativeinterruptions.net/the-kola-in-sally-fenaux-barleycorns-film-unburied/#respond Tue, 28 May 2019 16:48:55 +0000 http://creativeinterruptions.net/?p=1760
35.875 people have died in the mediterranean sea since 1993 to today trying to reach a safe port. Hundreds continue to die monthly. Spanish and Italian governments have started prosecuting and forbidding navigation to any NGOs that will try to save their lives. Our brothers and sisters keep dying. The seas of the world are filled with black bodies.
Sally Fenaux Barleycorn’s short film, Unburied, is a visual poem of pain and remembrance. Dedicated to those buried in the waters, to their lost-at-sea souls; it is a moment for heartbreak, guiding their souls back home.

In this piercing and heartbreaking piece, Sally uses the Kola nut, and the significance of the ritual behind it, as a narrative device. 

A scene from Sally Fenaux Barleycorn’s short film, Unburied

The Significance of the Kola Nut

The kola nut is the fruit of the kola trees that are native to the tropical rainforests of Africa. The caffeine-containing fruit of the tree is used as a flavouring ingredient in beverages, and is the origin of the term “cola”. It is chewed in many West African countries, in both private and social settings. The Kola nut has been a major part of the fabric of African life for centuries particularly in Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, and predominantly for the Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo people. In every traditional gathering, Kola nuts are highly esteemed channels of blessings. It is used during ceremonies related to marriage, child naming, initiation of Chiefs, funeral, and sacrifices made to the various deities in Africa. A kola nut ceremony is briefly described in Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel “Things Fall Apart”. The eating of kola nuts is referred to at least a further ten times in the novel showing the significance of the kola nut in pre-colonial 1890s Igbo culture in Nigeria. It is also featured prominently in Chris Abani’s 2004 novel “GraceLand”; in the “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker, and is repeatedly mentioned in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel “Half of a Yellow Sun”.
“He who brings the Kola nut brings life.”
Unburied will be shown at Creative Interruptions festival! For more information about Sally, and her film, visit a previous post: http://creativeinterruptions.net/unburied-a-short-film-by-sally-fenaux-barleycorn/
]]> https://creativeinterruptions.net/the-kola-in-sally-fenaux-barleycorns-film-unburied/feed/ 0 Unburied a short film by Sally Fenaux Barleycorn https://creativeinterruptions.net/unburied-a-short-film-by-sally-fenaux-barleycorn/ https://creativeinterruptions.net/unburied-a-short-film-by-sally-fenaux-barleycorn/#respond Wed, 15 May 2019 14:30:59 +0000 http://creativeinterruptions.net/?p=1732 In joining our forces with Runnymede Trust,we have collaborated on commissioning two short films that resonate with our ethos and project themes. 

We are pleased to announce our first commission, Unburied by Sally Fenaux Barleycorn. A truly moving and poignant account of the heart-wrenching affects that hostile migration policies can have on real people. 

Below is a description of the film and some shots from behind-the-scenes by photographer Alice Brazzit. We will be uploading a preview of the film very soon…

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Unburied by Sally Fenaux Barleycorn. Photograph by Alice Brazzit.

35.875 people have died in the mediterranean sea since 1993 to today trying to reach a safe port. Hundreds continue to die monthly. Spanish and Italian governments have started prosecuting and forbidding navigation to any NGOs that will try to save their lives. Our brothers and sisters keep dying. The seas of the world are filled with black bodies.

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Unburied by Sally Fenaux Barleycorn. Photograph by Alice Brazzit.

Sally Fenaux Barleycorn’s short film is a visual poem of pain and remembrance. Dedicated to those buried in the waters, to their lost-at-sea souls; it is a moment for heartbreak, guiding their souls back home.

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Unburied by Sally Fenaux Barleycorn. Photograph by Alice Brazzit

The film has been shot in Barcelona in collaboration with Ghanian artists, The Sey Sisters and Mouhamet Dia (Advisor of Immigrant & Refugee services, Barcelona).

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Unburied by Sally Fenaux Barleycorn. Photograph by Alice Brazzit

Bio

Sally is the daughter of African and European migrants. She has been working in the film industry in 2009, and premiered her first short film in Amsterdam (NL) in 2015. As a director her focus has always been to translate emotional experiences into images, ideas into visual metaphors, exploring how much one can communicate beyond the ‘rational’ into the hearts of an audience.

To find out more about Sally’s work check out her website: www.nowheresally.com

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