One Day Tafo is a uniquely poetic film,
transcending generally accepted form. Being half Danish,
half Ghanaian - and thereby a consequence of a marriage of
cultures - the filmmaker embarks on a spiritual exploration
of what connects people and peoples. It is a film which
goes beyond the socio-political and anthropological issues
seen in most films about Africa and its relationship to the
Developed World.
Through the intimacy of a personal perspective, we are
taken to Tafo, a small town in the Akim area of Ghana. This
was where the filmmaker spent his early childhood, before
moving to Denmark with the family at the age of five.The
family situation in Tafo provides a strikingly effective
micro-cosmic view of the general transition from the
Colonial to the modern world. This view is then re-enforced
by the reaction of the filmmaker to his early childhood
home, after nearly thirty years.
By incorporating footage shot by his Danish father in the
50s with both documentary and fictional sequences, the end
result is a film in which these genre definitions become
irrelevant and obsolete.
Whilst experiencing the legacy of slavery, the intimacy of
the changes in the former family home, the harsh realities
of contemporary life, and a living traditional parable, we
travel on a journey through heart and mind, a journey in
which we glide effortlessly between inner and outer worlds.
