A disillusioned security guard haunted by dreams of ancestral spirits wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a purple masquerade, a traditional spirit-creature that stalks the streets of Lagos, in Abba Makama’s surrealist romp “The Lost Okoroshi.”
The follow-up to Makama’s kinetic, colorful feature debut, “Green White Green,” which marked him as one of the Nigerian film industry’s fast-rising stars, “The Lost Okoroshi” made its world premiere in the Discovery section of the Toronto Intl. Film Festival Sept. 6.
After playfully exploring Nigerian identity in his first film, Makama returns to look at the uneasy fit of his country’s traditional beliefs with the modern age. “We wanted to start a debate about cultural identity, and themes like Westernization and modernity,” he said. “I think it’s a question we’re even still wrapping our heads around.”
The vehicle to explore that question is the masquerade,...
The follow-up to Makama’s kinetic, colorful feature debut, “Green White Green,” which marked him as one of the Nigerian film industry’s fast-rising stars, “The Lost Okoroshi” made its world premiere in the Discovery section of the Toronto Intl. Film Festival Sept. 6.
After playfully exploring Nigerian identity in his first film, Makama returns to look at the uneasy fit of his country’s traditional beliefs with the modern age. “We wanted to start a debate about cultural identity, and themes like Westernization and modernity,” he said. “I think it’s a question we’re even still wrapping our heads around.”
The vehicle to explore that question is the masquerade,...
- 9/9/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
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