BIMPÉ FAGEYINBO
POET & FILMAKER
The Filmmaker.
In her directorial debut, Bimpé explores love, heartbreak, and grief in this visual poetic memoir featuring selected poems from her 2010 book, so maybe that’s the bee’s weakness.
Boju Weyín, the title of the film, means to look back; to look to the past in Yoruba, her native tongue.
As she carries on everyday, mundane yet intimate tasks, viewers are invited to share in these moments of reflection and her path towards healing.
In addition to film festival Official Selections, boju weyín received Honorable Mention for Best Narrative Film at the Los Angeles Film Awards.
the POET.
Fageyinbo is the author of two books of poetry, so maybe that’s the bee’s weakness (2010) and what was me (2017). Her recent contributing work includes, A Womb of Violet Volume II: Blackness, Resistance, and Being (2021), and A Womb of Violet: An Anthology (2019), archived in collections at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Library of Congress. Fageyinbo’s first narrative short film, boju weyín (2022), is a poetic memoir using experimental storytelling techniques to explore love, heartbreak, and grief.
2023.
Bimpé is currently working on her third book of poetry, her second short film, and a documentary about mobility in Nigeria. She will be on a film tour beginning in April of 2023.