Once an Old Lady Sat on My Chest

2017, 10 minutes

Once An Old Lady Sat On My Chest is a magical realism journey into selfhood.

Uju, a young British Nigerian woman, struggles to find work and hoping to improve her chances, decides to change her ethnic name to an English one. But this leads to a bizarre haunting by an old woman whose presence forces Uju to question the significance of her name and her identity.

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