Shot in an unfinished brutalist building in Accra, the short movement film Liminal captures a space caught between use and abandonment, and what remains when an undertaking goes unresolved. Directed by visual artist Naafia Naahemaa, performer Nana Yaa Poku Asare-Boadu inhabits the structure through responsive, unchoreographed movement, navigating raw concrete staircases and exposed pillars.
Observing the Ghanaian capital as a landscape shaped by perpetual motion, while public
infrastructure remains deprioritized, Liminal imagines how bodies adapt to shifting environments when development is redirected. Voiced by conversations about land taken without notice, displacement, and the quiet erosion of what people depend on, the film draws on interviews with women living in a 1960s social housing development in Kaneshie to capture the conditions and somatic responses of communities inhabiting these incomplete structures, merging movement, sound, and architecture in a field of tension… read more at nowness.com
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