If Objects Could Speak wins Best Documentary award.
Kenyan documentary If Objects Could Speak has won the award for Best Documentary at the recently concluded Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards (AMVCAs). The 8th edition of the award ceremony took place over the weekend at Victoria Islands in Lagos, Nigeria.
The film, directed by German Elena Schilling and Kenyan Saitabao Kaiyare, explores the origins of a Kenyan artefact, currently housed in a German museum, in a bid to find answers about the object’s origins. With the permission of Lindenmuseum Stuttgart the filmmaking duo was able to do a 3D scan of the artefact from the Kikuyu tribe.
Speaking about the filming of the documentary the duo said, “Using Augmented Reality for our installation, we went back to Kenya to travel and find out if there is any knowledge about this artefact today, and what it means to the people – in its digital form and its absentia in the physical.”
This is not the first award that the film has won, last year it was awarded the Osmane Sembene Award under the Godfather of African Cinema Category at the Zanzibar International Film Festival.
