There There

A poetic short about the restoration of faith

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Pamela
• Sneed
• videopoem
• pamspeaks

[ngonea]

Powerful, and she's right, they are there. "Let the circle be un-broken"

[pamspeaks]

Ironic to hear from you and the proof keeps rolling in they're there. I turned in my thesis tonight to the first reader and it's on Pan Africanism and my journeys to Cape Coast, and your you tube page is about Pan Africanism. And we connected out of the blue?! Glory. Glory. Glory.

[artist4africa]

Those castles ARE really powerful. When I filmed them, a beautiful golden light came from the sky and landed on the castle. It's like they knew I would tell their story and created the perfect filming environment. Believer or not, you will feel them. "They're there!" and will never be forgotten.

[pamspeaks]

Yes, I titled it there there to mean the comfort of knowing they're there. I would like to see your films. I am doing some thesis research on the castles and a performance piece. Very powerful indeed, my life and work changed since I saw them.

[hapycampr2002]

Wonderful. A nice counterpoint to the "Coming Home - Ghana" video. I visited Ghana a couple of years ago with a dear friend who was being enstooled in Kumasi. I went there with humility, which seems to be lacking in the couple portrayed in the video. I am sure they mean well, but they project a little bit of the aggressive Ugly American syndrome. Perhaps that is why they did not feel welcomed - they are subtly insulting the very Ghanaians they want to be a part of.

[SeerNubian]

Thank-you for posting, I was heartbroken after I watched "Coming home -Ghana" I suppose there is but one way to find truth and its not to be told, but to seek it for yourself. Your words were stirring. Blessings to you.

[GraceTruthTeacher]

I experienced the most haunting feeling when I stood in the slave traders bedroom in the Elima Castle. Strangely, this bedroom is located just above the castles church. I wondered to myself how many slave women had been raped in that room and thrown out like filthy rags and returned to the dungons below. As a committed Christian, I wondered if the cries for help were muzzeled by the songs that were being sung in the church below. Or did they sing louder in an effort to drown out the cries. Hmm?

[oluwalogbon58]

thank you hapycampr am sick of the aggressive and ugly american syndrome which you see on the ghana board and some of those americans are more ugly than others on there too! reading the comments the reason for the war between us and them as africans is simple: you come to disrespect africans and bring your baggage as well as your money its just not good enough. you got it correct they come to insult the ghanaians and cant understand why they are ignored in the process and called "obruni" .

[BLKMRM]

they sure do. i was thinking the same thing.

[vixxy02]

You are absolutely right! GOD BLESS YOU!

[dineroboy]

I'm from Ghana.God bless you for this.

[LGnLA]

WOW, this is so powerful... and thanks for the contrasting message/response video to "Coming Home -Ghana"... (they see you as strangers, bs) well said... there there, they're there... p o w e r f u l!!!!

[MwaliWe]

Lovely!

[Nicewarmandcozee]

Your words are something to consider. Thank you.