We featured something back in July on the excellent Gambia film made by the Canadian company Journeyman. Their task was to create a ‘non-stereotypical, empowering story about Africa that will talk to Canadians’. We’ve recently come across a couple of sections of the full length video on YouTube and thought we would share these with you.
They have a strange power about them and are as true a representation of the country as I’ve seen; and whilst the clip below doesn’t show The Gambia of brochures and polished photography it still induces, for me anyway, a near crippling nostalgia for the place: the faces, the rust-brown roads, the simple lines of things, vivid in that unique sharpness of light… It’s a great piece.
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It appears the video above is no longer working but check out the following link to view “Faces of The Gambia”……
http://www.journeymanfilm.com/work/