MICHELLE WILLIAMS GAMAKER
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    • DISTANT RELATIVE (2018)
    • The Eternal Return (2019)
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    • BROWN QUEERS (2017)
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      • Elephant Boy’s Adventures in Reconstruction​
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Becoming Vera

2008 | DV | 46mins | Colour
Co-directed with Mieke Bal and Alexandra Loumpet-Galitzine
French, Russian and Cameroonian with English subtitles

Between age three and four, Vera Loumpet-Galitzine traverses many landscapes, exploring where she comes from, to come into her own. We follow her to her school and neighbourhood activities in France, to Cameroon and to Russia. In Fumban, Cameroon, she is initiated as nji mongu, the oldest daughter of the nji (prince) of the traditional kingdom of Bamun. 

In Russia, in Moscow and surroundings, she visits the estates of her mother’s ancestors, who were nobility exiled during the revolution. For Vera these visually engaging landscapes seem easily integrated into her rich fantasy world. 
Alll site contents © Michelle Williams Gamaker 1999-2018
  • Works
    • DISTANT RELATIVE (2018)
    • The Eternal Return (2019)
    • THE FRUIT IS THERE TO BE EATEN (2017)
    • HOUSE OF WOMEN (2017)
    • BROWN QUEERS (2017)
    • ELEPHANT BOY (2015) >
      • Elephant Boy’s Adventures in Reconstruction​
    • Collaboration >
      • Collaboration with Julia Kouneski
      • Collaborations with Mieke Bal
  • INDEX
    • Archive
    • Films in development >
      • VIOLET CULBO
      • THE IMPERIAL
    • Man In Parts
    • WOCI Reading Group
  • Bio/Contact