This work explores the unknown participation of Congolese intellectuals in the Situationist International movement, especially a young student called Joseph M’Belolo, who wrote a protest song in May 1968. Meessen came across the lyrics and reworked the song with M’Belolo and female musicians from Kinshasa and recorded it in the now neglected building of the legendary nightclub Un, Deux, Trois. The film builds up to a finale which amplifies and salutes the political rumblings of 1968.
Also in this combined programme
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Novaciéries
A mysterious merging of cinema, performance and home video. A dancer practices his jumpstyle choreography in an empty steelworks. -
Le Park
Portrait of youths in an abandoned amusement park in Casablanca, in meaningful tableaus inspired by social media. “I am here, I exist.” -
not even nothing can be free of ghosts
Made without camera or film, Austrian artist Rainer Kohlberger’s algorithm-based abstractions engulf the cinema space with their light rhythms and opt
Film details
- Country of production
- Belgium
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 35'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
