在这部Tatsuniya II纪录片/短片片中,Tatsuniya II is the second film in the Tatsuniya series. Like Tatsuniya (2017) it mostly takes place at Shehu Sanda Kyarimi school in Maiduguri, Nigeria and extends an ongoing collaboration with current students of the school who appear in the film. The film continues on an intuitive and improvisational vein using children’s games, poetry, and exercises from a physical education book for secondary school students as a framework for weaving the narrative together.
We see the students moving from the classroom to dense green forest in dream-like scenes, expanding on the social surrealist language Rahima Gambo developed in 2017. These spaces act as a backdrop to the choreographed moving sequences the students helped created in the Tatsuniya Workshop, a storytelling workshop the artist holds with the students to develop the narratives we see in the film. “Tatsuniya” means a fable, short story, or riddle in the Hausa language.
