The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for Mabel Dove

The read

It runs a compact 15m.

Synopsis

When The Great Erasure interrupts her reading of Dove’s story, The Black Girl goes in search of the author. After the Feminist Bookseller and Africanist Professor do not help her, she turns to The Revisionists, in whose cyberarchive she is able to locate Dove and the two spend an afternoon together. Told in the style of a ciné-roman, the film is an homage to Shaw and Dove’s “Adventure” novellas.

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Key crew

• Nnenna OnuohaDirector
• Nnenna OnuohaWriter
• Kathy-Ann TanWriter

Cast

• Nicole PearsonThe Black Girl
• Mmakgosi KgabiMabel Dove
• Swantje LichtensteinBookseller
• hn. lyongaProfessor
• Femi LawalCyberspace
• Obaro EjimiweRevisionist
• Nnenna OnuohaNarration