Title: “Tatsuniya” Part 1 Trailer (2017)
Duration of video: 7 minutes
This film about student memory in schools in northeast Nigeria explores the relationship between text, audio, moving and still images. It takes place in Shehu Sanda Kyarimi school, Maiduguri featuring current students of the school. The school was attacked by Boko Haram in 2013. As students remember their experiences living at the forefront of the Boko Haram conflict, their stories often sound like a dark folktale somewhere between the real and the imagined. The video in its non- linear and disjointed sequence mimics the sonic and visual rhythms of this collective memory and touches upon themes of youthfulness, innocence and play. “Tatsuniya” means a fable, short story or riddle in the Hausa language.
