The seats in the theatre are still empty when the performer – the artist – enters the frame. She speaks about a colonial flashback. She is haunted by a series of historic photographs of or taken by the Austrian ethnographer Paul Schebesta in the 1930s, in the Belgian colony of the Congo.
The other films shown within PACT: Reframing History
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Fluid Frontiers
Ephraim Asili IFFR 2018 23′Powerful final part in the series of films in which Asili studies his relationship to the African diaspora. Will be screened both as part of Bright Future Short and PACT (Pan-African Cinema Today).
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Her Name in My Mouth
IFFR 2018 6′A reinvocation of the Aba Women’s War, the 1929 anti-colonial uprising in Nigeria, through embodiment, gesture and the archive.
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Street 66
Ayo Akingbade IFFR 2018 13′Documentary about Ghanaian housing activist Dora Boatemah and the Angell Town community in Brixton, London fighting for better housing conditions.
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Mugabo
Amelia Umuhire IFFR 2018 7′A woman returns to her fatherland Rwanda after 20 years. An impressive journey to a place that previously consisted of other people’s memories.
- Filmmaker
- Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Country
- Austria
- Year
- 2017
- Medium
- DCP
- Length
- 13’
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
- Sales
- sixpackfilm
- Cinematography
- Sunanda Mesquita
- Editor
- Sunanda Mesquita, Nick Prokesch
- Sound Design
- Nick Prokesch
- Cast
- Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
