Nosferasta: First Bite

2021

33m

5.0

5.0/10

1 votes • View on IMDb

Documentary Drama

"How can you decolonise yourself, if it’s in your blood?"

Overview

a Rastafarian vampire film starring and co-written by Oba, an artist and musician based in Brooklyn. Spanning 500 years of colonial destruction, human trafficking and blood sucking, the film reimagines Oba’s origin story. In the late 15th century, Oba is shipped as cargo from West Africa to the Caribbean, where he is seduced by the vampire Christopher Columbus, ensuring his undying allegiance to the colonial project. As the centuries blow by, Oba and Columbus work behind the scenes, pulling the strings of ‘new world’ geopolitics as they spread vampirism across the Western Hemisphere. Combining film forms and genre tropes, Nosferasta examines the guilt of being complicit in imperial conquest, while acknowledging the extreme difficulty of unlearning centuries of vampiric conditioning. Ultimately, the film tackles an uncomfortable question: How can you decolonise yourself, if it’s in your blood?

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Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Countries

United States of America

Spoken Languages

English

Quick Facts

Release Date	October 6, 2021
Status	Released
Language	EN
IMDb ID	tt17825038

Cast

Oba

Key Crew

Adam Khalil

Director

Bayley Sweitzer

Director

Oba

Writer

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