From form to abstraction: Teaching the short experimental film with Me Broni Ba (2009)

Non-specialist and incoming students tend to focus on words and stories to the detriment of how moving pictures are articulated. In this article, I share my experience teaching Me Broni Ba by Akosua Adoma Owusu at a predominantly white institution, and I show how it has contributed to teaching students about film grammar and analysis; pushing them to perform interpretation and encouraging them to interrogate their own whiteness and revise their cultural and racial assumptions.