8oinks

Nollywood is said to be the third largest film industry in the world, releasing onto the home video market approximately 1 000 movies each year.
Such abundance is possible since films are realized in conditions that would make most of the western independent directors cringe. Movies are produced and marketed in the space of a week: low cost equipment, very basic scripts, actors cast the day of the shooting, “real life” locations. Despite the improvised production process, they continue to fascinate audiences.

Welcome To the Terrordome. And Nollywood is scary shit, but not in a Hollywood way. Rather than employ the rituals of history, myth and mystery to seduce and then placate us, scare it all away — all the shit that’s not suppose to be scary but really is, Pieter throws it in our face.

What Nollywood seems to be suggesting is that it is not the “I” of the photographer or even the “I” of the viewer, but the eye of the camera. We’re thrown from “representation” (of something real) to “simulation” (with no secure reference to reality), the normal relation between sign and referent radically remixed so that we lose the connection, once presumed to exist, between sign or image and the reality to which both were thought to refer. (via)

take a look at the complete Nollywood series on Pieter Hugo’s website or gallery