A Jim Chuchu yaa Kenyã filim-gʋlsda, fotograaf, yɩɩn-gʋlsda la nin-naand sẽn yit Kenya. A paama pẽgre a sẽn yɩ Kenya mizik sull a ye sẽn boond t'a Just A Band[1] la a sẽn wa n yaa Kenya LGBT filim ning sẽn yaa Stories of Our Lives wã taoor soaba.[2]

Jim Chuchu
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Sex or gendermale Tekre
Country of citizenshipKenya Tekre
Given nameJim Tekre
Date of birth7 Sa-sik kiuugu 1982 Tekre
Zĩ-ninga o rogeNairobi Tekre
Languages spoken, written or signedEnglish Tekre
Occupationphotographer, film director, screenwriter Tekre
Work period (start)2006 Tekre
Official websitehttp://www.jimchuchu.com Tekre
Copyright status as a creatorworks protected by copyrights Tekre

Tʋʋmde

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A sẽn wa n bas kolɛɛsã yʋʋmd 2006 wã, a sɩngame n tʋmd ne piblisite. A basa a tʋʋmdã n lebg graphic designer sẽn yaa a meng soaba yʋʋmd 2006 wã saabẽ.[3][4][5]

2006-2012: A tʋʋm sɩngre

Yʋʋmd 2008 wã, a Chuchu lugla Just A Band ne a Bill "Blinky" Sellanga la a Dan Muli, a sẽn da yã-b Kenyatta inivɛrsite wã.[6] A Jim tʋma tʋʋm wʋsg sullã pʋgẽ, sẽn naag ne sullã pipi sɛb a tãabo, Scratch to Reveal, 82 la Sorry for the Delay, sẽn naan foto rãmb sullã yĩnga, la a dɩka sullã video-rãmb wʋsg taoor[7] - sẽn naag ne "Ha-He" sẽn wa ne Makmende wã, sẽn kɩt tɩ Wall Street Journal, CNN la Fast Company bool video wã tɩ Keni wã pipi viral internet meme.[8][9]

Yʋʋmd 2012 wã, a Chuchu lugla The Nest Collective, sẽn yaa tʋʋm-noy sẽn yaa toor-toore, sẽn be Nairobi.[10]

Yʋʋmd 2013 tʋʋl-nif kiuugã, a Chuchu maana la a yiis Imaginary Chains wa Adeiyu. EP wã yɩɩl a yembr yʋʋr sẽn boond t'a Hollow paama Mercedes Benz Mixed Tape 55 pʋgẽ.[11] A pʋga EP kãngã ne a sẽn yiisd a ye wã You Can't Break Her Heart yʋʋmd 2013 sɛbr kiuugã.[12]

Yʋʋmd 2013 zĩ-likr kiuugã, a Just A Band wilgame t'a Chuchu basa sullã n na n tũ a so-pakrã.[13] A sẽn yi wã poore, a Chuchu rɩka a pipi filim-bil ning sẽn yaa Homecoming wã n dɩt a tʋʋmde, a sẽn boond tɩ African Metropolis, a sẽn maana pipi wã 2013 Durban International Film Festival wã pʋgẽ, [14] n yaool n kẽng n tɩ ges 2013 Toronto International Film Festival wã, [15] la International Film Festival Rotterdam, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Film Festival Locarno la Seattle International Film Festival yʋʋmd 2014 wã.[16][17][18]

Yʋʋmd 2014 tʋʋl-nif kiuugã pʋgẽ, a Chuchu fot-rãmb sull ning sẽn boond tɩ Pagans wã zĩnda dak ¢Art sẽn yaa yʋʋm 2014 kibsã pʋgẽ, sẽn yaa Afirikã yam-kaabl kareng yʋʋmd 11 soabã, tɩ yaa Precarious Imaging: Visibility and Media Surrounding African Queerness sẽn be Dakar, Senegaal wã.[19] Senegal taoor dãmb wa n basa remsgã daar a yembre, tɩ b yeel tɩ b na n paka remsg nins sẽn na n wa gomd gom-bi-be-taarã yell beoog-daare[20].[21]

2014: D vɩɩmã kibare

Yʋʋmd 2014 sɩpaolg kiuugã, a Chuchu yiisa a pipi filim ning sẽn yaa Stories of Our Lives wã, sẽn yaa filim-biis a nu sẽn tar kɩbay sẽn wilgd LGBT vɩɩm sẽn yaa sɩda Kenya pʋgẽ, a sẽn dɩt a nao wã.[22] Filmã paama pipi waoongo Toronto International Film Festival sẽn zĩnd yʋʋmd 2014 wã pʋgẽ, tɩ pipi wã b pa kõ-a kaset ye. A Chuchu ne neb a taab sẽn yaa Nest Collective nin-buiidã a George Gachara la a Njoki Ngumi yãka yam n na n wilg b yʋya filimã pʋgẽ la sõsga pʋgẽ ne Toronto LGBT zʋrnall a Xtra! [23] B yiisa filimã kasetã, a Chuchu sẽn naan la a yɩɩl yɩɩl a naase[24]

Yʋʋmd 2014: Pagens

Pagans yaa fot-rãmb sull a Chuchu sẽn naan n baood n na n "lebs pĩnd-n-taare Afrɩka wẽnnaam dãmb sẽn ka be yʋ-peellẽ wã, b karen-biisi, la tũudmã yel-manesem nins b sẽn yĩmdã". [25]Tʋʋmd a yembr sẽn pa tar yʋ-peell sẽn yi yʋʋmd 2014 pʋgẽ wã wilgda "ned sẽn tar fuug sẽn yãgd la yĩns sẽn yaa kãn-kãe [sẽn] get yĩngri wa bugum la pɩgs sẽn yit a nengẽ wã". 26] Sẽn na yɩl n naan bõn-kãens, a Chuchu maana fot-rãmb sẽn yaa bũud la bũud ne nin-buiidã, n vẽeg la a ning bũmb a taab b zutu, n yaool n ges-b la a toeem-ba.

Foto rãmb wʋsg sẽn yit Pagã rãmb nengẽ la b wilg "Precarious Imaging: Visibility and Media Surrounding African Queerness" pukrã pʋgẽ, Dakar Biennal 11 soabã pʋgẽ. Tẽn-kãng yɩɩ pipi tẽn-kãng sẽn da gomd gom-yoodã yelle. Senegal goosneerã yika remsgã tao-tao, a sẽn wa n wa ne Moslem nin-tũusds nins sẽn kɩɩsd gom-yoodã Senegaallã sẽn sãam remsgã.[26]

Filmografe

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Filmsã

  • 2014: Stories of Our Lives

Enternet wã yel-segdɩ

  • 2016: Tuko Macho

Video

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  • 2013: Just A Band - Matatizo (co-director)
  • 2011: Just A Band - Huff and Puff (co-director)
  • 2011: Just A Band - Away
  • 2010: Just A Band - Ha-He!
  • 2009: Just A Band - Usinibore
  • 2009: Stan - Wangeci
  • 2009: Just A Band - If I Could
  • 2009: Just A Band - Highway
  • 2008: Just A Band - Hey!
  • 2008: Just A Band - Fly
  • 2008: Manjeru - Lalalalala
  • 2008: Atemi - Speechless
  • 2008: Just A Band - Iwinyo Piny
  • 2008: Mena - Maisha

Tigis-kãsemse

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B wilga a Jim fot-rãmb la video-rãmb a sẽn maan zĩis nins sẽn pʋgdã:

  • 2014: "Afropean Mimicry and Mockery", Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt.
  • 2014: "Shifting Africa", Mediations Biennale Poznan, Poland.
  • 2014: "Precarious Imaging", Raw Center for Art, Knowledge and Society, Dakar.
  • 2014: "Future Reflexions: Five Positions of Contemporary African Art", Glasgow
  • 2011: "Kudishnyao!" (Just A Band), Rush Arts Gallery (New York) and Goethe-Institut Nairobi
  • 2010: "Mwangalio Tofauti: Nine Photographers from Kenya", Nairobi Gallery
  • 2009: "TRNSMSSN:" (Just A Band), Goethe-Institut Nairobi
  • 2009: "Amnesia": Nairobi National Museum.
  • 2008: "24: Nairobi - Walkers and Workers", Goethe-Institut, Nairobi.

Album-rãmb

  • 2012: Sorry for the Delay
  • 2010: 82
  • 2008: Scratch To Reveal

EP la yɩɩl a ye

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  • 2014: Stories of Our Lives: Music from and Inspired by the Film (EP)
  • 2014 Mayonde - "Isikuti Love" (Single)
  • 2014 Jarel - "The Plus Minus Collection" (EP)
  • 2013: Adeiyu - "You Can't Break Her Heart" (Single)
  • 2013: Various Artists - The NEST Presents: Legacy (Compilation EP)
  • 2013: Adeiyu - Imaginary Chains (EP)

Mixtapes la Remix Albums

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  • 2011: The Just A Band Boxing Day Special
  • 2011: Kudish: The Sound of Soup

Sebre

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  • Iwalewa: Four Views into Contemporary Africa. Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth (2013). ISBN 9783000431159.
  • Mwangalio Tofauti” – Nine Photographers from Kenya. Contact Zones NRB, Nairobi (2012). ISBN 978-9966-1553-3-7
  • 24: Nairobi. Kwani Trust, Nairobi (2010). ISBN 996672950-X.

Sebtiise

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  1. https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/03/24/kenya-launches-countrys-first-viral-music-video/
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129033714/http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/tiff-2014-review-stories-of-our-lives-anthology-film-asks-if-we-are-not-africans-what-are-we-20140905
  3. https://archive.is/20141116143436/http://african-lookbook.myshopify.com/blogs/african-lookbook/7547840-jim-chuchu
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20141128191753/http://africandigitalart.com/2009/06/interview-with-jim-chuchu/
  5. http://www.mtvbase.com/shows/touching-base/
  6. http://www.nation.co.ke/magazines/lifestyle/-/1214/493738/-/9c39mdz/-/index.html
  7. http://dangerousminds.net/comments/forget_hollywood_new_york._the_future_of_the_music_video_is_in_nairobi
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129094022/http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2010/03/31/mckenzie.kenya.viral.sensation.cnn.html
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20141222053620/https://blackfilmcenterarchive.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/kichwateli-other-pleasures-of-the-kenyan-music-video-scene/
  10. http://www.goethe.de/ins/za/prj/afm/fil/nai/en11530720.htm
  11. https://web.archive.org/web/20141107040024/http://mb.mercedes-benz.com/en/86101/mixed-tape-55-strictly-glorious/
  12. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129024742/http://afripopmag.com/2013/10/get-to-know-kenyan-fantasy-folk-duo-adeiyu/
  13. http://www.goethe.de/ins/za/prj/afm/fil/nai/en11530720.htm
  14. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129014955/http://www.durbanfilmfest.co.za/2013/feature-films/african-metropolis
  15. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129033805/http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/five-title-african-short-film-showcase-at-toronto-international-film-festival
  16. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129014755/http://sbiff.festivalgenius.com/2014/films/homecoming_jimchuchu_sbiff2014
  17. http://www.pardolive.ch/en/Press/film?fid=754010&finit=A&dinit=&cinit=&sid=&day=&vid=&eid=67
  18. https://www.iffr.com/en/films/homecoming2/
  19. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Gay-art-show-will-go-on-in-Senegal-despite-warnings/32339
  20. http://news.artnet.com/art-world/senegal-censors-homosexual-art-33607
  21. http://hyperallergic.com/131036/senegalese-government-shuts-down-exhibitions-addressing-homosexuality
  22. https://variety.com/2014/film/festivals/stores-of-our-lives-lgbt-kenya-community1201299178-1201299178/
  23. https://web.archive.org/web/20140915140951/http://dailyxtra.com/world/news/kenyan-filmmakers-%E2%80%98come-out%E2%80%99-ahead-tiff-premiere
  24. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129031253/http://www.okayafrica.com/news/stories-of-our-lives-nest-collective-jim-chuchu-kenya-film/
  25. https://web.archive.org/web/20190323214239/http://www.jimchuchu.com/pagans-2014
  26. https://hyperallergic.com/131036/senegalese-government-shuts-down-exhibitions-addressing-homosexuality/