Scorpio: A Flim by Angel Dweh

202666m
Documentary

Angel Dweh left Liberia for Pennsylvania as a child. Over the following decade he builds a music career entirely on his own terms — his own label, his own sound, his own rooms — releasing three EPs that move from introduction, to confession, to something stripped bare. The film traces the sound back further than he does. A century earlier, Kru sailors from the Liberian coast worked European ships as free crew and came home with guitars, playing them in a two-finger style that travelled port to port and became the foundation of West African popular music. Across conversations with Dweh and the people who record him, a portrait emerges of an artist who keeps his life private and reveals himself only through lyrics and, having made it somewhere new, turns back toward the country he came from.

Crew

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Christian Valera

Director

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Austin Bundy

Director of Photography

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Christian Valera

Writer

Cast

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Angel Dweh

Himself

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Christian Valera

Interviewer

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