Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
Akosua Adoma Owusu
Manipulating found footage, the film observes the latest fad in hairstyles of 1975 among African Americans at a time when black was beautiful and a symbol of African pride. »Playful yet powerful, Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful focuses on African American women’s hair, spinning found footage of 1970s New York hair salons and hairstyles into a dense collage of gesture, image, and contemporary resonance.«
– Museum of Modern Art
Film Series Kaleidoscorpse
Akosua Adoma Owusu
Akosua Adoma Owusu is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker, producer and cinematographer. She has exhibited worldwide including Berlinale, Rotterdam, BFI London Film Festival, and the New York African Film Festival. Named by Indiewire as one of six avant-garde female film-makers who redefined cinema, her work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Pompidou and the Fowler Museum. Owusu received her MFA in film/video and art at the California Institute of the Arts. She lives in Ghana and New York, where she works as a visiting assistant professor at the Pratt Institute.
Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu (Selection)
Ajube Kete 2005 | Revealing Roots 2008 | Me Broni Ba 2009 | Drexciya 2010-11 | Kwaku Ananse 2013 | Bus Nut 2015 | Reluctantly Queer 2016 | Mahogany Too 2018 | Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care About Us 2019
