Film
Films depicting African belief systems and mythology with critical analysis of narrative voice, cultural representation, and spiritual authenticity.
Children of Blood and Bone Film News: What Orïsha Is (and Isn't)
The advice comes in the replies under every trailer: it's a fantasy movie, relax, none of it is real.
Orisha on Screen: What a Film Adaptation Owes a Tradition
Row F, forty minutes into the show. A character says a name — Ọya, maybe, or Èṣù — and somewhere in the dark a phone lights up and somebody types it into a search box, half-spelled, no diacritics.
Children of Blood and Bone: Film Adaptation Announcement and the Orïsha
The number I wrote down was ten. I had the trailer running in one tab and a dog-eared paperback of Children of Blood and Bone face-down beside the keyboard, and I did the small, slightly obsessive…
Vodou Spirituality and Practice vs. the Hollywood Zombie
A sugar mill turns in the dark. Six men lean into the capstan bar, walking it in a circle, and their faces do not change. One of them slips and goes into the grinder. Nobody stops.
Children of Blood and Bone: Inside a Film Adaptation Announcement
A teaser plays before whatever you actually queued up. Ninety seconds, a drum figure under the studio logo, and a single word held on screen long enough to read: Orïsha.
African Folklore in Contemporary Storytelling: Who Narrates
Late in Atlantics, a line of young women leave their beds in a Dakar suburb and walk to the house of the developer who never paid their boyfriends. Their eyes have gone white.