Stories of Our Lives
- sombre
Sombre, steady, measured drama / lgbtq, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Created by the members of a Nairobi-based arts collective — who have removed their names from the film for fear of reprisal — this anthology film that dramatizes true-life stories from Kenya’s oppressed LGBTQ community is both a labour of love and a bold act of militancy.
Our read · Stories of Our Lives (2014) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · lgbtq · anthology entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Stories of Our Lives
What watching it is actually like.
“You want honest black-and-white anthology of queer lives and struggles in Kenya.”
Skip it tonight — You want light entertainment or are sensitive to homophobia and explicit content.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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