Best Short Art Films & Docs directed by abiola

AWARD-WINNING ART FILMS

DIRECTED BY ABIOLA

SHORTS & DOCS SCREENED AT FILM FESTIVALS, THEATERS, MUSEUMS & GALLERIES WORLDWIDE

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KNIVES IN MY THROAT

(Documentary) 54 minutes in 5 webisodes. The film follows a year in the life of a bipolar hip hop poet. Best Experimental Film, African American Film Fest, Reel Sisters Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival.

OPHELIA'S OPERA

(Experimental Narrative Drama), 15 minutes. Ophelia uses a spell to free herself from an abusive relationship. Premiered at the Pan African Film Festival.

STILL TABOO

(Documentary), 2005, 18 minutes. A raw look at people’s surprising views on interracial love. Premiered at the Museum of the City of New York.

Photo by Joseph W. Carey for stark-arts.com.

Award-Winning Short Films - Love, Lifestyle and Inspiration

ABOUT

It was my honor for a few years to host THE BEST SHORTS, short film competition on BET. It meant much to me to give other indie filmmakers a venue-- and a chance to win money for their efforts. As an opinionated lifestyles journalist, on-camera talent and writer it was only natural that I would be a director. My film themes are mostly relationships, self-love and communication in a contemporary pop culture format.

In addition to writing my debut novel DARE, I've directed a few mini-movies & docs, with the award-winning AFRODITE SUPERSTAR & KNIVES IN MY THROAT receiving the most attention. I also created the Until the Violence Stops Vagina Warriors Film Festival in association with Eve Ensler's VDay. The festival took place at the Museum of the City of New York and the Museum of TV and Radio.

My films have screened and been performed in theaters, museums, galleries and festivals in London, West Africa, Berlin, South America, the West Indies and throughout the US. It was also a life-changing experience to lead a film expedition to Nollywood, the Nigerian Hollywood, and to shoot a short film in Germany at the Berlinale Film Festival.

Movies that i've directed include Ophelia's Opera, a 15 minute experimental drama about domestic violence, Knives in my Throat, a doc about a young woman dealing with suicidal tendencies, taboo, renamed My Comb, His World, a doc about interracial love, spin-off 3 minute short Black Count.

I then went to Germany to shoot Stranded, a 7 minute romantic comedy, and as a grad school project dug into Alicia in Wonderland a crazy sadomasochistic fairytale, and then dared to shoot Afrodite Superstar, an experimental feminist erotica film.

Hopefully, you enjoy my art tales too.

ALICIA IN WONDERLAND

(Narrative Comedy), 2005, 16 minutes, follows a grad student down the rabbit hole as she temps at a dominatrix dungeon. MFA, Student Film. Premiered at the Chashama Gallery .

AFRODITE SUPERSTAR

(Comedy) 2007, 45 minutes. Abiola directed this feminist erotica in conjunction with Candida Royalle under the name Venus Hottentot. It premiered at the New School for Social Research. Nominated for 7 AVN Awards.

STRANDED

(Comedy), 2004, 7 minutes. Mali is stranded in Berlin. What should she do when her fiancée doesn’t show? Premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival.

THE BLACK COUNT

(Docudrama), 2006, 3 minutes. Do you count black folks when you go to the movies? Premiered at the Rush Arts Gallery.

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