Chip Duncan Screens His Award Winning Film The Soundman

The Charles Allis Art Museum, as part of its current exhibition, Inspiring Change: The Photography of Chip Duncan and Mohamed Amin, presents an evening with awarding winning documentarian Chip Duncan, August 30 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Duncan will lead a Q&A following the screening of his international award-winning short film, The Soundman. The film chronicles 35 years of conflicts across Africa through the life of 62-year old soundman Abdul Ramadhan, who witnessed them while working for Mohamed Amin’s Nairobi-based Camerapix production company.

About The Soundman

The Sound Man, is a documentary short (27 minutes) about 62-year-old location sound engineer Abdul Ramadhan. After graduating from a local madras in central Nairobi, Abdul learned his craft on the job at Nairobi's Camerapix production company where he's been employed for more than thirty-five years. While working with acclaimed photojournalist Mohamed Amin and others, Abdul recorded the sounds of revolution, civil war, genocide and famine throughout East Africa. Abdul speaks candidly about the tragedies he's witnessed and provides gripping detail about the civil war in Sudan, the genocide in Rwanda, revolution in Somalia and Ethiopia and the current tribal conflicts in Kenya. Abdul has traveled the continent for his work, yet he continues to reside in his boyhood home in Africa's largest slum, Kibera.