bodylab art foundation & xela films in association with arte france present
woman see lot of things
Biographies
participants
Anita Jackson
Born Liberia. Volunteer fighter and nurse in SLA (Sierra Leone Army) and AFRC junta (Armed Forces Revolutionary Council) during the war. Now Corporal nurse assistant in the SLA.
Anita Jackson
Born Liberia. Volunteer fighter and nurse in SLA (Sierra Leone Army) and AFRC junta (Armed Forces Revolutionary Council) during the war. Now Corporal nurse assistant in the SLA.
director, producer
Meira Asher
Composer-performer and image-sound artist Meira Asher, was born in Israel and lives in the Netherlands.
Studied Tabla and Dhrupad in Varanasi-India, and traditional drumming, voice and dance of the Ga, Eve and Dagomba people of Ghana, both of which she later taught and performed. BFA in percussion and multidisciplinary arts at California Institute of the Arts (1990). Master in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague (2002).
Art projects ‘Dissected’ (album and concert 1997), ‘Spears into Hooks’ (album and image-sound performance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 1999), ‘Infantry’ (album and image-sound performance with Guy Harries, on child manipulation and child soldiers 2001), and Face_WSLOT (album, book, interdisciplinary art installation, and debut documentary film on female ex-child combatants in Sierra Leone 2004) toured and published throughout the world. Co-founder (2001) of the bodylab art foundation in The Hague.
Meira Asher
Composer-performer and image-sound artist Meira Asher, was born in Israel and lives in the Netherlands.
Studied Tabla and Dhrupad in Varanasi-India, and traditional drumming, voice and dance of the Ga, Eve and Dagomba people of Ghana, both of which she later taught and performed. BFA in percussion and multidisciplinary arts at California Institute of the Arts (1990). Master in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague (2002).
Art projects ‘Dissected’ (album and concert 1997), ‘Spears into Hooks’ (album and image-sound performance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 1999), ‘Infantry’ (album and image-sound performance with Guy Harries, on child manipulation and child soldiers 2001), and Face_WSLOT (album, book, interdisciplinary art installation, and debut documentary film on female ex-child combatants in Sierra Leone 2004) toured and published throughout the world. Co-founder (2001) of the bodylab art foundation in The Hague.
Chris Conteh
Born Sierra Leone. Abducted and fought with the RUF junta (Revolutionary United Front). Now attends Senior Secondary school.
Mahade Pako
Born Liberia. Abducted and fought with ULIMO (United Liberian Movement for Democracy). Moved to Sierra Leone in 2000.
co-producer
Alexandra Jansse
Producer-director Alexandra Jansse has a master degree in Political and Social Geography, specialized in Third World countries.
She worked with the British Film Institute’s curator of African and Caribbean Films and the director of ICAIC to establish the Federation of Caribbean Film and Video Professionals and was the coordinator of five Caribbean Film Festivals in the Dutch Antilles. Jansse also worked as an executive producer for the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Media Business School (European Media Program 1).
Alexandra Jansse is an experienced film producer/director and series editor who did a range of films and television programs. In 2001 she established her own company Xela Films. In 2002 she set up EMF Films Ltd. in order to produce 'A dollar a day', a poignant six-part international series, dealing with lives under the poverty line.