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Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) • 9m 28s
Directed by Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri • 2017 • United States, Nigeria
Starring Jacob Alexander
This short film was directed by Arie and Chuko Esiri in 2017, while they were studying film at Columbia University and New York University, respectively, and it stars EYIMOFE’s Jacob Alexander as a single father and amateur fighter on the verge of going pro who discovers that his forgetfulness may be a symptom of something worse.
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Because Men in Silk Shirts on Lagos N...
Directed by Arie Esiri • 2018 • United States
Presented here is a short made by Arie Esiri in 2018 for the fashion brand Maki Oh. Shot on celluloid at night in Lagos, Nigeria, the film has eerie postapocalyptic and Afrofuturist overtones.
