Artist

Adebukola Bodunrin

Adebukola Bodunrin is a Nigerian-Canadian film, & video artist who explores language, culture, and media. In her collage animations, she manipulates film using unorthodox manual and digital techniques to produce unexpected cinematic experiences. Bodunrin’s animation work has been featured on the television series Transparent, and in KCET’s “Lost LA” series, for which she also won an LA Area Emmy award for segment direction.

Ezra and Buki’s first collaborative work, the animated Afrofuturist short film, The Golden Chain, has screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Images Festival, Anthology Film Archives, the British Film Institute, Redcat Theater, Museum of Contemporary Arts Chicago, Festival Animator, Black Cinema House, and on the Criterion Channel. In 2017, The Golden Chain was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art for their permanent collection.

Artist Code: 2054

Videography

The Golden Chain

2016, 13:20 minutes, colour, English, Available with French sibtitles