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Coriolis, single screen (2013)

13min | 16mm digitized | 13min | Benin & Finland

Coriolis is a poetic documentary about identical twins, Marthe and Martine, who are separated by the world. A caregiver of the elderly, Martine currently lives in Helsinki, while Marthe, who works as a dressmaker, still lives in their native country, Togo. The two sisters come from a region where planetary winds, the great forces of the climate, arise.

Screenings:
2014
A Thousand of Him, Scattered, Stills -Scotland’s Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, UK
Hard Thawing – Experimental Film and Video from Finland screening @ National Gallery of Art, Washington, US
2013
5th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar, EG
11e Festival International Signes de Nuit, Paris, FR
17th Jihlava Int. Documentary Film Festival, CZ
7th Prvi Kadar, International Festival of documentary and short movies, Sarajevo, BA

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