Comments on: Imagining Tobia & Ethiopia Whispers: Art Show at Westfield State College http://www.tadias.com/02/09/2009/imagining-tobia-ethiopia-whispers-art-show-at-westfield-state-college/ Ethiopian Business and Lifestyle Fri, 19 Jul 2013 03:21:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=395 By: Ayele Bekerie http://www.tadias.com/02/09/2009/imagining-tobia-ethiopia-whispers-art-show-at-westfield-state-college/comment-page-1/#comment-6447 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:27:41 +0000 http://www.tadias.com/?p=7482#comment-6447 I had a chance to view Professor Salem’s ‘Imagining Tobia’ in Addis Ababa. The film is remarkably innovative and thought provoking. The threesome imaging and imagining, informed by Ethiopian traditional art, defies hierarchy and rigidity. It searches for and contemplates shared time and democratized (people friendly) landscape. In other words, in the film, time and place are set in motion in order to narrate (visual and oral) a story of a people. I get a sense of an interplay between tradition and modernity in her great visual narrative. I salute Professor Salem’s visionary renderings of Ethiopia, an Ethiopia in which people would be able to know and address issues.

Ayele

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