The film consisted of four and a half hours (a 111-minute version has just been released on DVD) of 'discordant' images, enhanced with scratches, shaky footage running upside down or in reverse, blank frames, stock shots and a soundtrack consisting of monologues and onomatopoeic poetry (i.e. sounds rather than words).
The next thing you know, the track is a figure eight, or a portion of it has lifted like a Hot Wheels track and you're running upside down against the laws of gravity.
After cockroaches and geckos flip over ledges, they can then continue to run upside-down under surfaces.
"When the time came for him to have a show of his works in the lobby of the art building... the school newspaper ran a reproduction of one of his paintings but they ran it upside down.
A labyrinthine chapter prints boxed paragraphs extruded from other paragraphs, lists running backwards or upside down; at other times, the reader finds a series of pages with just one or two lines on them, and turns rapidly; at yet others, one is made to slow down by rotating the whole book at an angle.
(In his new novel, one story runs across the top of the page, while another, upside down, runs along the bottom. And that's just for starters).
Bazawule, who is on a mission to create a thriving, self- sustaining film industry in Ghana, infuses "The Burial of Kojo" with color and invention, not hesitating to turn the film upside down, run it in reverse or speed up his edits to create a desired effect.
Tile (2.0) ($25): Nothing is worse than those mornings when you are frantically searching for your keys, especially when your kids are standing at the door, boiling in their coats as they watch you run around turning everything upside down.
