Film
Phyllis
2011 · 16m · Fantasy · Drama
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Overview
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
- Zina Saro-WiwaDirector · Producer · Writer · Director of Photography
- Sese SomoluProducer
- Ben GrinbergEditor
Details
- Release date
- April 7, 2011
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- xx
- Runtime
- 16m
- Genres
- Fantasy, Drama
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