“Boju Weyín” (2022) is a cinematic meditation on life, art and love inspired by filmmaker Bimpé Fageyinbo’s 2010 autobiographical poetry book “so maybe that’s the bee’s weakness. Fageyinbo delivers a stunning short film that mixes memoir and poetics with arty images that interpret both the romance and solitude of the protagonist. While “Boju Weyín” can be said to be inspired by filmmakers Julie Dash and Wong Kar-Wai, it’s as beautiful as a Matisse painting and as personal as a diary entry.
Fageyinbo allows both the camera and the audience to linger within her sorrow and solitude, while also giving us a beautiful document of her soul. This wonderful film has been on the film festival circuit and has received much acclaim from audiences nationwide.
Click here to read the conversation between cultural critic Michael A. Gonzales and filmmaker Bimpé Fageyinbo.
On Director/Writer Bimpé Fageyinbo By Michael A. Gonzales
