Nosferasta First Bite

a Rastafarian vampire film starring and cowritten by Oba an artist and musician based in Brooklyn Spanning 500 years of colonial destruction human trafficking and blood sucking the film reimagines Obas origin story In the late 15th century Oba is shipped as cargo from West Africa to the Caribbean where he is seduced by the vampire Christopher Columbus ensuring his undying allegiance to the colonial project As the centuries blow by Oba and Columbus work behind the scenes pulling the strings of new world geopolitics as they spread vampirism across the Western Hemisphere Combining film forms and genre tropes Nosferasta examines the guilt of being complicit in imperial conquest while acknowledging the extreme difficulty of unlearning centuries of vampiric conditioning Ultimately the film tackles an uncomfortable question How can you decolonise yourself if its in your blood