Based on the 1958 film Under the Black Mask by Paul Haesaerts, this new film transforms masks from objects into subjects and imagines what the latter would say. Aimé Césaire’ s “Discourse on Colonialism”, a speech still critical towards Europe, is spoken in Lingala for the first time.
Matthias De Groof
Matthias De Groof (1981) Belgium. Filmmaker and scholar. His award-winning films (Lobi Kuna (2018), Palimpsest of the Africa Museum 2019) have been selected at IFFR, Le FIFA and the Berlinale, among others. His edited book Lumumba in the Arts (2020) reached the top-100 “books to escape the news”. He has held fellow appointments at the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Waseda University in Tokyo.