Would your accumulated and complex feelings, fuzzy memories and fantasies that protected you for so long and helped you define yourself as you are, combust when you return and become close to the sun of your life - a past and young love?
You are outgassing, releasing the pain and angst, making a wish for a brighter future.
Synopsis: Three decades after their separation, Irina and Nana remain mesmerized by memories of earlier days. But when Irina returns to the small community she left—where Nana stayed to start a traditional family—the women must reconcile with the past and their complex feelings.
Directed and written by Ekwa Msangi, Farewell Amor is the story of a Angolan family, a father, mother and daughter reunited after 17 years apart. They are now together in the U.S, strangers in the same one-bedroom apartment. Through the love of dance and music, they find their way back to love tuning themselves to the same united rhythm of their beating heart, saying goodbye to who they used to be. They grieve and rejoice.
It is a what-if story inspired by the author's uncle and aunt story who found themselves apart due to circumstances.
It is a beautiful story of people who immigrated. the story is depoliticised. The tribulations and struggle that immigrants experience are unseen. Instead, we engaged more deeply about the heartbreak, longing and tension experienced by each family member as they redefine themselves as individuals and strive to find a united choreography as a block, a group, a unit
Dancers from the same company - who find within the tune of life their part. A part that is beautiful, strong, majestic, in harmony, in sync with the time at hand.
By choosing an Angolan family, the movie may be seen as an atypical African movie as the pan-european, Portuguese influences through music and dance - Kizomba, Kuduro - bring a different flavour and give the viewer a different perspective of what being an African in New York could be. They can be truly themselves through music and dance. They connect with one another and their roots through music and dance. Maybe the tune is an unseen person, an energy that cares for us to be more in tune, harmony and in sync than anything else.
My father is both its state of consciousness and unconsciousness.
He has Lewy Body Dementia.
He has wisdom though in his cloud.
I pay very close attention to what he says before he goes.
I had my mother on the phone. She narrated her last encounter with him.
He said: ''Why do you stay at home? You and Marle Toto. You have to come out of the house sometimes if you want to start collaborating with people.''
She replied: how do you know that your daughter and I stay at home?
He disappeared.
As my mum narrated what happened, I heard him.
Yes, I enjoy working from home.
I can be the whole me.
No need to engage in the war of the minds, be dominated by any isms in the form of community cohesion or for some the doctrine of religion, no need to conform to any vision or listen to the tell-a-vision. Drink and eat to please when you already full of aspirations.
Yet, I heard him.
It is Freedom time now.
Time to free ourselves from the shackles of convention and shout out loud what we truly believe in so together we can all progress.
To do so, achieving freedom comes with a cost, you have to be as organised as the people in war and come out of your shell.
I have listened to you, father, and will go out there more for my voice to be heard.
Tim Minchin (Thanks Simon) - Click here
His advice to graduates on how "to be" is funny, inspiring, beautiful and real. To sum it up very very simply, he says:
1. You don't have to have a dream.
2. Don't seek happiness.
3. Remember, it's all luck.
4. Exercise.
5. Be hard on your opinions.
6. Be a teacher.
7. Define yourself by what you love.
8. Respect people with less power than you.
9. Don't rush.
Listen to these words of wisdom, and you might just get through life perfectly...Or at least, kind of unscathed.
Steven Spielberg and Cyril Cusack are having a conversation at a New Year's eve party. An anonymous is sitting next to them. Spielberg starts: 'All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives'. 'Indeed' replied Cyril Cusack 'if you ask me for my New Year Resolution, it will be to find out who I am.' That being said the anonymous declares: 'I wish you to not try to find who you are. The search is like following a shadow in the grey, you will never catch it. So just be - the light erasing any shadow of doubts in your mind. Be the sun painting new landscapes of beauty and adventures, be the moon sculpting your dreams and highest aspirations.' Happy New Year
I have been sending emails to an incredible number of UK comedians to promote the Green Festival of Making and Mending at the Dave's Leicester Comedy's Festival 2015. I must say that most comedians I know are Gad El Maleh, Jamel Debouzze and other French International comedians such as Russell Brand. So it feel good to extend my horizon.
After about 40 emails sent, I received my first answer from Chris Purchase, check me out!
How snuffed I was. I did it! congratulating myself excitedly. My hands in the hair, scratching the surface of my brain, I have linguistic persuasive email power (Yes you do in a Stallone Voice). It took me a while to reply as I chose to procrastinate writing this blog post instead. What could I respond to him after asking him if he would make one or two positive jokes on making and mending at his show on the 21st of February 2015 (more info and to book), promoting in turn our endeavour.
See, he replied (rewrote for the purpose of this post): 'Why not? I make and upcycle too' (with the voice)
What!!! a maker! (I am dreaming said the groupie inside myself). Indeed yes, from this point onwards, I was lost in the midst of self-contemplation. All I wanted to reply was:
'I am very curious to know what you are able to do with your hands.
You see, I have not yet master my kinaesthetic powers and I am deeply obsessed with those who do. This is why I am organising the Green Festival of Making and Mending in Leicester on the 31st October 2015.
Like a material girl failing to learn a new skill such as making a burger and a bag from Louis Vuitton, I shop makers like a cougar who lost her youth, like a falling star who lost her fans. Give me a bit of your magic for a moment. I need my hands to reappear from nothingness just to get the chance to make, repair and upcycle my broken kettle.'
Well, it is not exactly what I replied. But I am quite happy with the sudden splurge of creativity. My dad will be so proud.
An afternoon working from home and I came accross Luis Quildes. Quildes' visuals highlight with beauty and cynicism various perverse and violent aspects of our society. Thanks to Hitek for sharing. if you want to see more of Luis Quildes, go on Deviantart. For more discussion on the role of art - check here
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