Drexciya

Akosua Adoma Owusu

IndieLisboa 2011 • Cinema emergente

Ghana, United States, Documentary, 2010, 12′

Once crowded the Olympic swimming pool of the Praia Riviera Club, in Ghana, is now inhabited by desolation. The camera looks at the dry maritime traces, the crabs skeletons, the used bricks and the garbage dragged by the wind. The silence is all over the

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