Phyllis

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Olushola Adeyinka

Phyllis

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Gboyega Babajide

Man on Staircase

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Opeyemi Fajemirokun

Victim

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Zina Saro-Wiwa
Camera	Director of Photography	Zina Saro-Wiwa
Production	Producer	Zina Saro-Wiwa Sese Somolu
	Associate Producer	Opeyemi Fajemirokun
Writing	Writer	Zina Saro-Wiwa
Editing	Editor	Ben Grinberg
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