Journeyman Gambia film
Posted on October 20th, 2009 by Matt Smith
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.
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/