dilman

This is my blog where I keep track of my life, my travels, my writing, and my films. My main mastodon profile is @dilmandila@mograph.social I'm a writer, filmmaker, and all round storyteller and I sometimes think of myself as a transmedia artist because, well, I work across many media. I love science fiction and fantasy, and I've been listed in multiple awards like Philip K Dick Awards (2024) BSFA (2021), Nommo Awards (2021, 2022), and my films have won awards in festivals. #sff #writing #writingcommunity #africa #blog

30 Sweet Christmas Songs for a great holiday

Christmas is always a very upsetting period, because it is a reminder that we are growing older, that our dreams are getting further away from our grasp. It’s a time we begin to accept the harshness of reality, that magic is long dead. When I get down in this period, I have a playlist of … Read more

Sad Love Poem “Glass of Dreams”

a bit on the background When I set out to make video poems, I had a bunch of idle video clips that I didn’t know what to do with, like the one of a spider catching a fly. I realized I could stylize these videos and make them look animated look. However, after the second … Read more

Self Trap

This visual poetry is available on my youtube channel, dilstories TV. I’ve been writing poetry for a long time, as long as I’ve been writing, but never found courage to share publicly for they come from deep inside. Sometimes so deep inside that I feel naked when they are out in the open.

Dakar: Travel For A Beautiful Holiday

Visiting Dakar came at the right moment for me, after a lot of stress that the first half of the year had put me through, so much that gray shades brightened in my beard. At first I wanted to do a bit of backpacking in Senegal, maybe follow the river from Dakar to Ousman Sembene’s birthplace. But work called,