CinemaOSMovie · 2011 · 0h 16m

Phyllis

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Phyllis is a moving and atmospheric portrait of a ‘psychic’ vampire, a woman obsessed with synthetic Nollywood dramas, that lives alone in Lagos, Nigeria. The central idea of this short experimental film is the practise and significance of wig-wearing in Nollywood film; a practise the director has invested with deeper psychological as well as science-fiction layers. Underpinning this central idea however is a critique of the unforgiving treatment of single women in Nollywood and Nigeria. The film is an example of what the director, Zina Saro-Wiwa, has termed “alt-Nollywood”, a genre that plays with and reworks certain narrative, stylistic and visual conventions of Nollywood. Phyllis explores the gothic possibilities of the Nollywood aesthetic creating a new kind of low-budget atmospheric film that is very much of Nollywood and yet subverts the genre. Using Nollywood to subvert Nollywood.

Directed byZina Saro-Wiwa

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 16m
Language
XX
Released
April 7, 2011
Studios
ZSW Studios

Featuring

Cast & crew

3 credited
Starring

Olushola Adeyinka

Phyllis

Gboyega Babajide

Man on Staircase

Opeyemi Fajemirokun

Victim

Creative team
Directed by
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Written by
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Produced by
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Sese Somolu

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