Die in Ghana geborene Künstlerin Nana Asase, die den größten Teil ihrer Kindheit und Jugend in Deutschland verbrachte, lebt und arbeitet heute in New York, dem Wahlort ihrer Film und Foto-Kunst. Nachdem ich im Folgenden zwei Ihrer Kurzfilme zeige, lasse ich sie selbst zu Wort kommen, um sich und ihre Arbeit vorzustellen.

The Last Train to Lido:

Mephisto and I (the trip):

„My first love has always been literature, and its ability to transform mood and setting simply by a string of words, often revealing subtleties that are like little hidden treasures. Yet in expressing myself, I find that this medium falls short, at times. My work exhibits my deepest most intimate feelings that transcend verbal barriers, but also how I perceive the way others show their emotions. I want to portray an array of human emotions, in a contemporary way, with simple modern tools.

My interest in photography was sparked after a brief flirt with experimental film-making. I fell in love with my conventional point and shoot camera, with which I completed two mood-heavy film projects. To me, capturing the mood was essential to understanding the subtleties, which were embedded within the films, and it is in turn the mood that sets the tone in my photography. (mehr…)