2024 | Nigeria, Germany, Italy | Short

Machine Boys

  • Hausa - 9 mins
  • Director | Karimah Ashadu
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | Leonardo Bigazzi

STATUS: Completed

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A film of electric sonic and visual rhythms, Karimah Ashadu’s Machine Boys is one part 21st-century Scorpio Rising and one part incisive micro-ethnography. Intimately capturing Lagos’s sub-economy of motorcycle taxis—known locally as “Okada”—Ashadu zooms in on both the thundering, tricked-out machines and the bodies of the riders, whose performances of masculine bravado mask the precarity of their dangerous and illegal livelihoods.

Electric Rhythms Visual Rhythms Karimah Ashadu Machine Boys Masculine Bravado Dangerous Livelihoods Illegal Livelihoods
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