LEAF IN THE WIND

LEAF IN THE WIND

Leaf in the Wind is a documentary film, conceived as a two-voice monologue: Ernestine's voice and mine. One might say a dialogue, only the entire film is woven around Ernestine's words. My questions help Ernestine to tell her story; my voice-over commentary connects her story to that of her father, Ernest Ouandie, inscribing her personal story in the wider history of Cameroon and of African decolonization.

LEAF IN THE WIND
  • LEAF IN THE WIND

    Breaking the silences that help perpetuate collective and personal trauma, Leaf in the Wind reclaims a suppressed chapter of Cameroonian history.

    Executed by the Cameroonian authorities in 1971, hero of the independence struggle Ernest Ouandie left a daughter he never met. Through the painful ...