Onder het Witte Masker: de film die Haesaerts had kunnen maken (2020)

Original title

Onder het Witte Masker: De film die Haesaerts had kunnen maken

Directed by

Matthias De Groof

Genre

short film

Country

Belgium

Runtime

9 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A short film that reworks colonial-era footage from a 1958 Belgian film about Congolese art. It imagines what the masks in that original propaganda film might have said for themselves.

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What happens

Onder het witte masker: de film die Haesaerts had kunnen maken is een korte film uit 2020 geregisseerd door Matthias De Groof. De film maakt gebruik van fragmenten uit "Under the Black Mask", een film uit 1958 over Congolese kunst, geregisseerd door de Belgische kunstenaar Paul Haesaerts en gekwalificeerd als koloniale propaganda. Dit nieuwe werk stelt zich voor wat de maskers zouden hebben gezegd. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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