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Prism
(Prisme)

Directed by Rosine Mbakam, An van Dienderen, Éléonore Yaméogo.
Belgium, 2021, DCP, color, 78 min.
English and French with English subtitles.
DCP source: Icarus Films

Filmmakers Rosine Mbakam, An van Dienderen and Éléonore Yaméogo collaborate on a multifaceted essay film thinking through questions around Black representation in a cinema historically white-balanced. With the participation of a variety of scholars, artists, actors and fellow filmmakers, the film experimentally explores the depths that this colonization of representation erases. Upon debunking the myth of the technology’s neutrality, they creatively crack open the Pandora’s box of implications and repercussions. Using a distinctly non-didactic, unconventional approach, the film is a moving and dynamic reclamation, a poetic manifesto for an enlightened, inclusive cinema.

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