INDIGO is an afro-surrealist poetry short film telling the story of two black German women who meet during a hair braiding session. First experiencing a moment of aversion, they discover affection through the intimacy of braiding. Merging boundaries between feature film, visual art and poetry, INDIGO takes us on a journey through black German community life in the diaspora, hair braiding as a spiritual ritual and female intimacy. The film's artistic research is based on traditional African hair braiding rituals and the color indigo as a symbol for life in the diaspora.
Mona Okulla Obua is a German-Ugandan director, writer and editor. She graduated from Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg in 2017. Topics of her work are diasporic identities, the decolonization of black bodies, nature, spirituality and afro-surrealism. She explores the medium film through an experimental lense, implementing poetry in images and words.
Her work has been shown, amongst others, at Savvy Contemporary, Hebbel am Ufer and the International Poetry Film Festival Weimar. She currently lives between Berlin and Kampala.
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