2023 | Germany, Nigeria | Documentary,Short

Projekt

  • Yoruba, English 26 mins
  • Director | Dane Komljen
  • Writer | Dane Komljen, Ema Edosio
  • Producer | Zsuzsanna Kiràly

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

Forty-six years after its completion, the International Trade Fair Complex in Lagos, Nigeria, lies waterlogged and in disrepair, its modernist concrete pavilions flooded and overgrown with vegetation, and its shopping stalls and convention centers now serve as makeshift workshops, bike repair stalls, and playgrounds. Shooting in a soft-edged standard-definition video, Komljen observes the complex’s grounds with equanimity and warmth, marking both its history as a former utopian project and its present-day vernacular uses.

Trade Waterlogged Flooded Workshops Repair Utopian