Yinka Shonibare (b. 1962)

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Yinka Shonibare MBE was born in London in 1962 and raised in Nigeria. He returned to England to attend school and remained there. He is recognized as one of today's leading artists exploring the intersections of culture, politics, and identity in the post-colonial world. In 2005 Shonibare became a Member of the Order of the British Empire, a designation he invariably places after his name.

Yinka Shonibare MBE, _Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball)_

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HD film Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball), by Yinka Shonibare, is a visually resplendent and seductive union of dance, costume, sound, history, drama, light, and architecture. Loosely based on the opera of the same name by Giuseppe Verdi (which in turn was based on the play by Eugene Scribe who fancifully based his own play on the life of King Gustav III of Sweden [1746-1792]), Shonibare's film takes off from the final act of the Verdi opera.

Omer Fast, _Five Thousand Feet is the Best_

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Omer Fast’s film Five Thousand Feet Is Best takes its name from an excerpt of an interview between Fast and a Predator Drone aerial vehicle operator, now living and working in Las Vegas as a casino security guard. The operator recalls his jobs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, activating the unmanned plane to fire at civilians and militia from the optimum height of 5,000 feet.
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