Film
The Deliverance of Comfort
2010 · 7m · Fantasy
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Overview
Short satirical fable about a 'child witch' called Comfort. The Deliverance of Comfort is a critical and densely-layered response to the belief in child witches in some parts of rural Nigeria and Africa. The film questions the very nature of belief and comments on the complex relationship between pre-Christian pagan belief and modern day Nigerian Christianity. The relationship between Exu, The Devil, the human spirit and God. Inspired by the low-fi special effects employed in Nigerian Nollywood films especially when the supernatural is being evoked, "The Deliverance of Comfort" uses these same techniques but challenges the conservative and unchanging ideas about the supernatural drawing uncomfortable conclusions. In essence using Nollywood to subvert Nollywood.
Cast
Crew
- Zina Saro-WiwaDirector
Media
Details
- Release date
- March 19, 2010
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 7m
- Genres
- Fantasy
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