credits 

crossover
(2006)

5 mins

directed by nana o ayim
edited by herbert hunger


In Ghana, a phenomenon exists, known as Ayan or drum poetry, where the drum speaks and is understood as a language all of its own.

This film poem, using the devices of the Ayan, looks at the total solar eclipse that passed over Ghana in March 2006 as a metaphor for the crossing over of worlds:
Of the language of film and the language of (drum) poetry;
Of stillness and movement;
Of old forms of education and new ones;
Of the moon and the sun.
It experiments with a new language of film based on this classical Ghanaian form of expression.