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TOSSOU

2023, Experimental short. 35mm. Writer / Director.

The veil between the living and dead is thinning. An aging woman spends her last day in the physical world tending to her Vodun altar where she cares for the spirits of her deceased children before accepting the summons of Azetor, an anthropomorphic-bird likened to the spirit of death, to join them in the ancestral world.

Official Selections: Dances with Film, 2023; Pan African Film Festival, 2024; Experimental Forum 2024 (Best Experimental Short Award); Micheaux Film Festival, 2024; British Urban Film Festival, 2024.

(An AFI Conservatory Visual Essay. Sponsored by Kodak, Fotokem and Panavision.)