Adebukola Bodunrin

Biography

Adebukola Bodunrin is a Nigerian-Canadian film, & video artist who explores language, culture, and media. In her collage animations, she manipulates film using unorthodox manual and digital techniques in order to produce unexpected cinematic experiences. Bodunrin’s animation work has been featured on the television series Transparent, and in KCET’s “Lost LA” series, for which she also won an LA Area Emmy award for segment direction. Her short animation, "The Golden Chain", created in collaboration with, award-winning graphic novelist, Ezra Claytan Daniels, is in the permanent collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work has been screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Images Festival, Anthology Film Archives, the British Film Institute, Redcat Theater, Museum of Contemporary Arts Chicago, Festival Animator, and the Black Cinema House.

Known For

Acting

2016

The Golden Chain

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Lalloo (voice)

2014

Crimes Against Humanity

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Frenchie Sessions

2015

Bessie

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Black Swan Receptionist

Production

Crew

Directing

2014

Gather + Listen

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2005

Even When Life is Sad, People Still Have a Good Time

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2014

The Ooli Moves

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2022

Exquisite Moving Corpse

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2024

We Are Not Alone

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2016

The Golden Chain

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