Funmi Iyanda
@Funmilola
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polymath. visioneer. super producer … see the big picture [email protected]
London. Lagos. Shanghai
Joined January 2009
If you are lucky to live long enough, or wise enough; you’ll be alive with people for whom the context of history is genuinely or knowingly lost, non- conveyable or non relatable. It’s a terribly earned grace; this liberating realisation, that you are now free to care only about
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These are best seen in person so details come to focus. I would love to see interpretations in textiles and fashion. Nengi’s is already textile and quite fabulous.
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“The writer gives us villains to tell us uncomfortable truths because story is at the mercy of the lies we need”. - #trailerjam
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“Life became easier when l realised everyone preferred me to be rich, not to be good.” - #trailerjam
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I will always love Abayomi Barber’s fabulous ability to convey the subtlest softest emotions on subjects from whom the boring and hardening duality of tiresome hardships or bombastic triumphs is the expected norm. He let’s be and let’s breathe. A refreshment. He was great in
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I find gothic Nigeriana by old masters sublime and terribly honest because l think it’s where they are most proficiently self expressed within the constrains of necessary patronage and funding from sources that prioritise the political over the personal. #nigerianmodernism
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my favourite part of Frankenstein was the creature’s curiosity about the world & his instinct to form bonds with the people around him. he perceived the world without the filter of human judgment. he was gentle, and any violence he committed was a reflection of humanity’s cruelty
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Revolutionaries relentlessly pursued for decades by an army captain. One Battle After Another is politically sharp in its depiction of our society. It’s nightmarish, shocking, obscene, hilarious, and thought-provoking. The frantic score further amplifies the chaos.
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There’s no doubt he studied performing Art.
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Ayokanmi David is developing an interesting game on how to be a conductor in Lagos.
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Before we had the ability to test whether humans can detect the smell of fear scientifically, we had authors describing that smell for centuries. Authors don’t get it right every time, of course, but it’s worth thinking about the kind of evidence literature can provide.
Fun fact. You can literally smell fear. https://t.co/0L9yYrMgjA
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European visitors to the 19th Century American West would marvel at how many humble homesteading families would keep a cheap collected Shakespeare volume next to the Bible in pride of place. His plays would be performed in mining camps, saloons & even on whaling ships.
@youdoingtoomuch @NastiaTrixie I’m a former English major, and I strongly disagree. Shakespeare is inaccessible and alienating to the vast majority of children and, frankly, to many adults. Lit teachers have a romantic attachment to it that’s deeply detrimental to the learning of contemporary students.
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All shades of wonderful. 🔥 Pina Bausch / Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo The Rite of Spring / common ground[s].
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Every few years I rewatch The Mist around halloween time and I am always impressed every time. What a damn good movie it is. If you never seen it, you owe it to yourself for spooky season
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It hasn't been widely reported, but Eva Longoria has a whole side business putting early (and sometimes late) money into independent features in development. Obviously it paid off spectacularly with the Wick franchise. She's one of the canniest businesswomen in Hollywood.
Eva Longoria saved "John Wick" from shutting down by providing $6 million in funding. “We were less than a week out and we lost almost $6 million on a gap financing,” says director Chad Stahelski. “We were financing independently to get the bond, but one of the investors
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