Unearthing. In Conversation
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.
Also in this combined programme
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Fluid Frontiers
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… -
Her Name in My Mouth
A reinvocation of the Aba Women’s War, the 1929 anti-colonial uprising in Nigeria, through embodiment, gesture and the archive. -
Street 66
Documentary about Ghanaian housing activist Dora Boatemah and the Angell Town community in Brixton, London fighting for better housing conditions. -
Mugabo
A woman returns to her fatherland Rwanda after 20 years. An impressive journey to a place that previously consisted of other people’s memor -
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man
An alphabet of violence and freedom featuring rhythmic images provides a strong vocabulary for critiquing representations of black bodies.
Film details
- Country of production
- Austria
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
