Private Project

NINA FISCHER-STEPHAN'S RESPECTFUL GAZE

NINA FISCHER-STEPHAN’S RESPECTFUL GAZE explores the nexus of photography, architecture, and urban development, delving into the cultural and political implications of colonial and post-independence images of Africa. It sheds light on how these images, strategically displayed, evoke diverse memories at historical intersections.

  • Mudi Yahaya
    Director
  • Mudi Yahaya
    Producer
  • Francoise Akinosho
    Key Cast
    "Architect"
  • Adeyemo Shokunbi
    Key Cast
    "Architect"
  • Mudi Yahaya
    Key Cast
    "Photographer, Filmmaker & Writer"
  • Abiodun Ganiyu
    Key Cast
    "Roller Blader"
  • Dapo Ogunsanya
    Cinematography
  • Bolaji Ibikunle
    Cinematography
  • Dapo Ogunsanya
    Editor & Post-Production
  • Mudi Yahaya
    Sound Design
  • Sunday Oladotun
    Production Assistant
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    37 minutes 31 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 16, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Nigeria
  • Country of Filming:
    Nigeria
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL NEW YORK
    New York City
    United States
    May 18, 2024
    World premiere
    AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL | Shorts Program 1: Giants of Africa
Distribution Information
  • MODERN ART FILM ARCHIV
    Sales Agent
    Country: Germany
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Mudi Yahaya

MALLAM MUDI YAHAYA

Mudi Yahaya is a Nigerian visual artist, photographer, filmmaker, archivist, writer and curator. He lives and works in Lagos.

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MALLAM MUDI YAHAYA
Visual Artist, Photographer, Filmmaker, Archivist, Writer, Curator

Mallam Mudi Yahaya is a visual artist whose work explores interpretations of African hybrid identities and their varied visual dialects, currencies and vocabularies. With the massive digitization of media data, Mudi investigates aesthetics that connects postcolonial, post global African identities mediated by still photography and cinema linked with politics, philosophy, history, time, religion, power, violence, intolerance, gender and race matters. Mudis’ work further focuses on the relationship and tension between images as they interact with notions and strategies of post-colonial deconstruction and decolonization of the African identity in syncretic African spaces and non-spaces. Mudi’s interests in identity extends to photography archives where he conceptually explores counter narratives of photographic construction and representation that delves into the relationship between the photo archive and the idea of a nation and national identity. His conceptual archival projects are conceived from the performativity and multimodality of photography archives, that presents archival photos as a visual resource that influences semiotic construction with socio cultural meaning.