An exploration of everyday racism reveals how much this places the black subject in a colonial setting where they once again are reduced to the
subordinate, exotic ‘Other’. Racism allows the past to suddenly line up
with the present, and the present is experienced as if one were being catapulted back into that painful past.
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Confusion Is Next
Thai noise musician Thom AJ Madson confines himself in a room for an experiment to give a plumeria tree a sound. He alternates between creating… -
Song X
A group of teenagers conducts a cremation ceremony for a man who is entering the afterlife while still being sought by the military for deserting. -
Illusions
Grada Kilomba places the African oral tradition of storytelling in a contemporary context, recovering the memories and realities of a postcolonial wor -
While I Write: Act III of The Desire Project
With the written word as the only visual element, Grada Kilomba gives a voice to an individual who has been historically silenced by colonial narrativ -
Plantation Memories: Part I
An exploration of everyday racism reveals how much this places the black subject in a colonial setting where s/he once again is reduced to the…
Film details
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
