Naa N'ku Müna
Naa N’ku Müna, which translates to a Queen of Shea Butter, or a Woman of Desire, is an Afro-futurist collage that explores identity through intersecting narratives. In the film, Ghanaian-American artist ABENA imagines an alternative universe, or perhaps another lifetime, in which she was born into different roles, classes, trades, and times in the history of Ghana.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
