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How leisure and pleasure get dismissed as unworthy artistic subjects

My experimental films about Addis Ababa nightlife get criticized by Ethiopian intellectuals who say I should focus on more serious cultural subjects

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The filmmaker faces moral judgment about the cultural value of joy and entertainment as legitimate themes.

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