Thats My Face

In 1996 the filmmaker journeyed to the city Salvador Da Bahia the African heart and soul of Brazil seeking the identity of the spirits who haunt his dreams Twenty years before his mother made a parallel journey when she migrated with the family to Tanzania East Africa in search of a mythic motherland Shot entirely on silent Super 8 film by three generations of an African American family Thats My Face creates a mythopoetic feast of selfdiscovery