Donkomi

Donkomi is a short film that explores how spirituality is shaped socially, spatially and by capital. The film looks at the changing face of religious iconography, its layers of racialisation and how it is performed through the Ghanaian tradition of prosperity gospel. Exploring a passage from the Biblical book of Revelations in 3 cinematic acts, 3 languages, and from 3 sites -2 commercial and 1 more ambiguous and spiritual-, this film explores layers of legibility, and how ideas around both salvation and destruction are projected onto differently racialized bodies, place and our psyche’s.