Etiuwa Michelle Umobong
Sundance Collab Community Leader
Lagos, Nigeria
Etiuwa Michelle Umobong (b. Lagos, Nigeria) is an anti-disciplinary artist: filmmaker, writer, culture curator, and creative researcher exploring memory, history and culture in Africa and its diaspora, often from a speculative lens. Driven by a desire to spark reform and accountability, Michelle creates insightful and informative resources that translate abstract ideas into felt experience. Her mediums shift, but the throughline remains: introspection. She invites us to pause and reflect on the human experience; the vast diversity and contradictions of who we are, alone and together; the layered complexities of the worlds we inhabit. The play of light at the water's edge...