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Nosferasta: First Bite

Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer

2021 | 00:33:42 | United States / Puerto Rico / United Kingdom | English | Color | Dolby 5.1 | 16:9 | Video

Collection: Single Titles

Tags: History, Indigenous, Post-colonialism

Spanning 500 years of colonial destruction, Nosferasta tells the story of Oba, a Rastafarian vampire, and Christopher Columbus, Oba’s original biter, as they spread the colonial infection throughout the “new world.” Formally a vampire film and series of installations, the stylistically impressionistic Nosferasta examines the guilt of being complicit in imperial conquest, while also acknowledging the difficulty of unlearning centuries of vampiric conditioning. At its core Nosferasta asks, how can you decolonize what’s in your blood?

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Prizes + Awards

Winner Ammodo Tiger Short Competition, International Film Festival Rotterdam 

Premiere

International Film Festival Rotterdam
2022

Exhibitions + Festivals

Gasworks, London, 2021

Spike Island, Bristol, UK, 2022

Someday Gallery, New York, 2022

Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2022

Black Bristol Horror Club, Spike Island, Bristol, UK, 2022

Le Cinema Club, Paris, 2022

Batala Centro De Cinema, Porto, PT, 2022

Modern Museet Malmö, Malmö, Sweden, 2022

IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival, Lisbon, 2022

MoMA, New York, NY, 2022

REDCAT, CalArts, Los Angeles, CA, 2022

The 67th Flaherty Film Seminar,  Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 2022

ArtHub Film Club, ArtHub, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022

BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA, 2022

Scheherazade at Night, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2022

Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah, UAE, 2023

Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, UK, 2023

Shape-shifters (This Young Monster), Mumok Museum, Vienna, 2023

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