SHAGALI (2021) is an award winning film centered on collective cohesion, protection, and female authority. Its point of departure is Yaa Asantewaa, Queen Mother of Ejisu, whose leadership in the 1900 War of the Golden Stool marked a decisive defense of Asante sovereignty and sacred authority against British colonial rule. Drawing from her legacy, the film brings historical resistance into a contemporary visual field.

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Blending surreal portrayals of women across multiple generations, SHAGALI attends to matrilineal presence, communal memory, and the transmission of strength. Their stillness, proximity, and shared orientation function as structures of protection and continuity. Produced between Ghana and Germany, the film reflects the artist’s lived relation to heritage and belonging, sustaining spiritual rootedness and strength carried across generations and geographies. It moves between states of openness and constraint, stillness and movement, approach and arrival.