Encountering Mudi Yahaya's Nina Fischer-Stephan's Respectful Gaze in Lagos

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Yékú, James:
Encountering Mudi Yahaya's Nina Fischer-Stephan's Respectful Gaze in Lagos.
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies. Bd. 37 (2025) Heft 3 . - S. 395-401.
ISSN 1469-9346
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2024.2320781

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Abstract

Mudi Yahaya's film Nina Fischer-Stephan's Respectful Gaze (2022) is a reconstruction of Nigerian history presented through a metarepresentational forcefield of images. The film is a documentary work that explores the resurgent vitality of the German photographer's archive from the early 1960s. In the Nigerian context, this film explores how forms of historical mediality are conditioned by a multiplicity of aesthetic and creative modes that strengthen the power of moving images to document historical memory. Drawing on social media archives such as the Nigerian Nostalgia Project, a Facebook account where Fischer-Stephan's historical photographs circulate, I examine the ways in which the film engages the critic in reading a film derived from photographic texts that have been mediated in multiple ways.