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Akosua Adoma Owusu (born January 1, 1984) is an AMAA award-winning American avant-garde filmmaker of Ghanaian parentage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Akosua Adoma Owusu )〕 Producers of Owusu's first feature film ''Black Sunshine ''won France’s ARTE International Prize Award at the 2013 Durban FilmMart.〔http://variety.com/2013/film/news/durban-filmmart-winner-touts-sunshine-ghanaian-cinema-1200566295/〕 In 2013, ''The Huffington Post'' listed Owusu in “Black Artists: 30 Contemporary Art Makers Under 40 You Should Know.” Her film Kwaku Ananse won the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Short Film. Kwaku Ananse participated in (French Cesar Film Academy Golden Nights Panorama ) program of Best Short Films of the year, organized with support from UNESCO, a program that selects notable short films awarded in 2013. “Although filmmaking in Africa is extensive in scope, innovation, and diversity, in the UK, African films are rarely or only peripherally included in the programs of international festivals, instead they are relegated to a handful of specialist and niche African film festivals. Despite the challenges facing filmmaking in Africa, due to the complex, multileveled, and expensive nature of this form of creative expression, film has long been used by African directors as a way to tell African stories, represent and negotiate African identity, and as a form of entertainment, education, and awareness-raising.”〔Lizelle Bisschoff. "Representing Africa in the UK: Programming the Africa in Motion Film Festival." Research in African Literatures 44, no. 2 (2013): 142-162. http://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed July 15, 2013).〕 If African cultures have long been the subject of ethnography then Owusu’s work illustrates the ways in which “ethnography still provides some challenges that can only be adequately met with experimental practice.”〔Danny Birchall, “Things Said Again” Film Quarterly , Vol. 63, No. 3 (Spring 2010), pp. 55-57. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/fq.2010.63.3.55 (accessed July 15, 2013).〕 Owusu engages African storytelling traditions through cinema and major themes in her films include the complex relationship between location and identity in its many physical embodiments, especially hairstyling. In her artist’s statement Owusu writes, “The hairstyles I experimented with in my life - the Afro, Braids, and hair straightening - were physical manifestations of my warring triple consciousness.” She continues, “The African immigrant is unlike the African American who has a double consciousness. The African immigrant has a triple consciousness.”〔Akosua Adoma Owusu, “Personal Statement.” http://www.mebroniba.com/director.html Accessed July 15, 2013. 〕 And “her ‘warring consciousness’ as she describes it, becomes the point of departure for her () film ''me broni ba'' (my white baby). Using hair as a medium of culture, she examines African and African-American identities and ideologies in an effort to resolve their differences,” writes Beti Ellerson.〔Beti Ellerson, “Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Triple Consciousness.” africanwomenincinema.blogspot.fr/2010/11/akosua-adoma-owusus-triple.html 23 November 2010. Accessed July 15, 2013〕 Owusu has said that "through my filmmaking, I hope to open audiences up to a new dialogue between the continents of Africa and America; one that incorporates more than just stereotypes, but includes both conventionalized and unconventionalized discourses of race in its service. By creating complex contradictions, I hope that new meaning can emerge and be deposited into the universal consciousness. If I can do this by creating an experience for the audience that enables them to experience what it's like to find oneself, while being foreign in a community, then perhaps I can help that new meaning come to light."〔https://tribecafilminstitute.org/blog/detail/heineken_affinity_award_profile_akosua_adoma_owusu〕 Nzingha Kendall underscores Owusu’s concerns, writing that she “explores how blackness is intertwined with displacement and memory and how they engage with the construction of individual and collective identity.”〔Nzingha Kendall. “Commentary: Haunting in Akosua Adoma Owusu's Short Experimental Films.” In Afrosurrealism in Film and Video, Terri Francis, ed. Special Issue, ''Black Camera: An International Journal''. 5.1 (2013)〕 Currently, Owusu is based in Accra, Ghana. Upcoming projects include Black Sunshine, a Creative Capital project about a complex love triangle. == Early life and education == Owusu was born on 1 January 1984 in Alexandria, Virginia.〔Margaret Roth, “Small Wonder: 1st Baby of ’84: Tiny Infant Arrives 2 Months Ahead of Schedule.” ''The Alexandria Journal'', January 3, 1984, A1 and A4.〕 Owusu earned her BA with distinction in Media Studies and Studio Art from the University of Virginia and her MFA degree from the departments of Fine Art and Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Akosua Adoma Owusu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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