Egungun Ancestor Cant Find Me (2017)

The word bone translates to yoruba as bones In Egungun Ancestor Cant Find Me a shellcovered sea creature swims emerges form the Gulf of Mexico and wanders island jungles and shores The shelled creature we see wandering in this film bears traits of both male egungun and female gelede ancestors The chasm of time distance and violence has severed its link to the living leaving it to look and listen for traces of our lives in an endless disorienting loop The film references the ancestorreverent Egungun masking tradition of the Yoruba people who indigenous to modernday Ghana Benin Togo and Nigeria were among the many African ethnic groups captured enslaved and sold as chattel into the Transatlantic Slave trade