Women See Lot of Things The Netherlands
2006, 65min.
Prod./Script/Dir./Compos./Sound: Meira Asher, Dir. of Phot.: Flashkes Hila, Edit.: Patrick Janssens
Cast: Anita Jackson, Mahade Pako, Chris Conteh
The film portrays the lives of three female ex-child combatants, who participated in the decade-long civil wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. All filming took place in Sierra Leone. This film challenges methods of production and visual aesthetics. It contains unique sound work, hand-drawn animation.
Awards
Prix Camera au poing RIDM (TVS Catalunya International Award 2007).
Production Company
Bodylab Art Foundation
Address: Postbus 87834, 2508DE Den Haag, The Netherlands
Tel:+31619122177
E-mail: info@bodylab.org
www.bodylab.org
| Asher, Meira Meira Asher
Composer-performer and image-sound artist Meira Asher was born in Israel and lives in the Netherlands. She studied Tabla and Dhrupad in Varanasi, India and traditional drumming, voice and dance of the Ga, Eve and Dagomba people of Ghana, both of which she later taught and performed. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in percussion and multidisciplinary arts from the California Institute of the Arts (1990) and a Master degree in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague (2002). Asher’s art projects Dissected (album and concert 1997), Spears into Hooks (album and image-sound performance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 1999), Infantry (album and image-sound performance with Guy Harries, on child manipulation and child soldiers 2001), and Face-WSLOT (album, book, interdisciplinary art installation, and debut documentary film 2004) toured throughout the world. She is the co-founder (2001) of the Bodylab Art Foundation in The Hague.
Filmography
Women See Lot of Things (2006).
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