'Zola' is a Modern Black Fairytale
It’s fun, it’s energetic, but it’s also understated and vicarial. Zola is a modern black fairytale and future of black movies.

A short film made by Andrej Iskanov. Presented as a short documentary about death, it is shot in a small room, no more than three meters by two. The room is lined with stainless steel and on the floor, and on shelves attached to the wall, are piled up corpses. Dozens of corpses.
It’s fun, it’s energetic, but it’s also understated and vicarial. Zola is a modern black fairytale and future of black movies.
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