Genesis Owusu
The bandages had a history in his visual world. This video is about taking them off.
Play on YouTubeGenesis Owusu releases through Ourness, independently. For "Stampede", director Isaac Brown retired a recurring motif on camera.
The bandages already had a history in Genesis Owusu's visual world, so what interested me for this film was the act of removing them. It felt like a threshold moment, one state ending and another beginning.
Two registers run against each other: loose documentary footage with Accra's real bike-rider subculture, cast from the community, against staged vignettes that Directors Notes describes as "more graphic, symbolic and a little mythic". Recces were done on the back of the riders' own bikes.
I didn't want to impose a story on Ghana from the outside. I wanted to find something real that already existed there and build from that.
Creative director Gina Wagstaffe. Cinematographer Daniel Attoh. Colourist Ferg Rotherham. Editor Ian Wallace. Steadicam Steadi Paul. 1st AD Prince Suasie Attipoe. Album REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE, 15 May 2026.
Both quotes are the director speaking, not the artist.
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