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Filhas do Barro / Daughters of Clay

A group of women potters in a whitewashed workshop on Santiago, Cape Verde, some seated beside low wooden turntables, in a still from Filhas do Barro.

On Santiago, Cape Verde, seven women potters speak of the livelihoods they have built in clay and the knowledge they will leave to their daughters. “Clay has been my source of livelihood,” one of the women says early in Filhas do Barro. “Ever since I started working alongside my mother, clay has been my school.” […]

Novo Atlantico

Tansi Makele is a Franco-Congolese filmmaker who grew up in the Paris suburbs and started making short documentaries at 19. His early work was mostly about dance and movement. Since then he has worked across fashion films, fiction, and experimental video. He cites Khalil Joseph, Terrence Malick, and Spike Lee as reference points, along with […]