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Alexandrina - A Lightning Bolt

director: Keila Sankofa

original title: Alexandrina - Um Relâmpago

country: Brazil

year: 2022

running time: 11 min.

synopsis

Amazonia, 19th century. Alexandrina was a woman whose features and skin color made her an object of observation. An exhibit that a white colonizer could examine, evaluate, and own. But the legacy that Alexandrina and hundreds of others with similar fates left behind survives to this day. In their faces, rituals, jewellery, and symbols.

“In this war, we all fight against the death of memory.”

biography

In her work, Brazilian visual artist Keila Serruya (b. 1985) addresses the silencing of indigenous voices and the erasure of the history of people of African descent living in slavery. Last year she was nominated for the Pipa Award, an award for outstanding Brazilian artists.

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director:	Keila Sankofa
producer:	Keila Sankofa

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