Emails to My Little Sister
Emails to My Little Sister is an anthropologically intended film created as part of an MA thesis project concerning the phenomenology of Blackness in Berlin. The film, however, takes place in Ethiopia where becoming Black is reflected back on in siblings’ email conversations.
Director Biography
Solomon A. Mekonen is a Berlin-based filmmaker, interested in visual storytelling grounded in anthropology. He has a master’s degree in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests include decolonisation and imagining alternative futures.
Director
Solomon Mekonen
Country
Ethiopia, Germany
Subtitles
English
Year
2018
Duration
35 min.
Also in this session
1. Het leven van Esteban
Inès Eshun, 15 min.
2. Emails to My Little Sister
Solomon Mekonen, 35 min.
3. Never Look at the Sun
Baloji, 5 min.
4. When You Hear the Divine Call
Festus Toll, 20 min.