Emeka Okereke

Photographer, Filmmaker, Writer, Visual Artist
      
Location: Lagos and Berlin
Nationality: Nigerian
Biography: Emeka Okereke is a Nigerian visual artist and writer who lives and works between Lagos and Berlin, moving from one to the other on a frequent basis. A past member of the renowned Nigerian photography collective Depth of Field (DOF), he holds a... MORE
Featured Film News
Film Screening & Conversation: "I Wonder As I Wander": On Akinbode at IL KINO Berlin
emeka okereke
Sep 23, 2020
Date: 07.10.2020
Time: 7pm
Venue: IL KINO, Nansenstraße 22, 12047 Berlin
Ticket Reservation: https://ilkino.de/movie-program


E.O Multimedia Presents I Wonder As I Wander: On Akinbode Akinbiyi.

In the short film 'I WONDER AS I WANDER' (2019–20) directed by Emeka Okereke, two Berlin-based Nigerian photographers of different generations engage in a filmic dialogue that transpires between Berlin and Bamako. It captures Akinbode Akinbiyi’s decades long pursuit of interrelating photographic processes with the physical and mental rigor of wandering. This weaving of sequences provide a glimpse into essential acts of daily observation, corporeal movement, urban noise and study of light. While Akinbiyi closely identifies with sacred philosophies of Yorubaland in connection to rhythm, symmetry and balance, we might also consider in parallel the words of Nigerian novelist, poet and critic Chinua Achebe who has noted, “Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.” Akinbiyi’s photographs are conversation pieces, extending a dialogue between the viewer and the viewed.

For this film, Emeka Okereke draws on a conversation that was first recorded with Akinbiyi as part of his podcast programme NKATA.

Text: Natasha Ginwala

This version of the film includes a conversation between Akinbode Akinbiyi and Natasha Ginwala which took place inside Akinbode’s solo exhibition (curated by Natasha), “Six Songs, Swirling Gracefully in The Taut Air”, at Martin Gropius Bau Berlin.

A conversation between Akinbode Akinbiyi and Emeka Okereke follows after the screening.



Program — IL KINO Berlin
LinkedIn Icon Facebook Icon Twitter Icon
4,877

Also by Emeka Okereke —

Featured Film Videos

02.03 - 28.04 | Nkata Podcast: Art & Processes at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k) Berlin

Emeka Okereke
Events

Guest Lecturer at the Berlin University of Arts

Emeka Okereke
Events News

Film Screening of "I Wonder as I Wander" – on Akinbode Akinbiyi

Emeka Okereke
Events News Videos

Tracing Presence(s) Project on display at the Schloss Charlottenburg Berlin

Emeka Okereke / Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
News

Whispers of the Wilderness: A Trans-African Road Trip Along the Okavango Delta

Emeka Okereke
Events News

Visiting Scholar and Artist Talk at Indiana University, USA.

Emeka Okereke
Events News

Moderator of "Skipping Borders" at African Book Festival Berlin

Emeka Okereke / Berlin
Events News

Conversation Booth at the Musik Installationen Festival, Nurnberg

Emeka Okereke / Nuremberg
Featured Film News Videos

Featured Podcast: Being Palestinian, a Life of Permanent Temporality - with Bahaa Abudaya.

Emeka Okereke / Berlin
Events News

Invisible Borders + Vera List Centre for Arts & Politics New York

Emeka Okereke
Featured Film News Videos

Now Available on Vimeo On Demand: "I Wonder As I Wander": On Akinbode Akinbiyi

Emeka Okereke
Events News

"Free Your Mind": Conversations one the Legacy and Power of Music

Emeka Okereke
Featured Film News Videos

Podcast: To Organise a Place As If It Was a Photograph "“ with Eric Gyamfi

Emeka Okereke
Events News

Judge at the Photo Bartur Photo Award

Emeka Okereke
Featured Film News Videos

Dots of Thoughts Podcast EP11: 21st Century Photographers Re-articulate A Continent

Emeka Okereke / Array
News Videos

Memory, Performance, Healing and Celebration in the Photographic Works of Lebohang Kganye. A New Episode of Dots of Thoughts Podcast

Emeka Okereke
Events News

Open Call: iVisible, A Witness Story

Emeka Okereke
Events News

NZUKOTA: Coming Together | An Intervention in Otobong Nkanga's "Taste of Stone"

Emeka Okereke
Events News

Photographers from Africa and Asia discuss their life and artistic practice on Nkata Podcast Show

Emeka Okereke
Events News

July 2020 Newsletter: Performance of Togetherness

Emeka Okereke
News Videos

"˜I Wonder As I Wander', a Film by Emeka Okereke

Emeka Okereke / Berlin
News Spotlight

On a Trans-Bangladeshi Road Trip with the Invisible Borders Trans-African Project

Emeka Okereke
News

Emeka Okereke awarded France's "Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters": Acceptance Speech

Emeka Okereke
News

New Body of Work: Dream Chamber:A Trans-African Project

Emeka Okereke
Film Screening & Conversation:
Sign-up for
For more access