British-Nigerian filmmaker Adeyemi Michael is the mind behind the short film, Entitled, which he describes as a “fantasy documentary” re-imagining the first-generation immigrant experience.
The film has attracted attention for its traffic-stopping sequence featuring Adeyemi’s own mother, dressed in full Yoruba finery, riding a stallion taking the streets of Peckham in South London as a conquest.
Beyond migration and identity, this film questions relationships of power with a both personal and universal message
COUNTERSPACE 