Movie
Under The White Mask: The Film That Haesaerts Could Have Made
2021 · Documentary · 9m -
Under the White Mask: The Film Haesaerts Could Have Made uses fragments of Under the Black Mask, a 1958 film about Congolese art directed by the Belgian artist Paul Haesaerts, which has been qualified as colonial propaganda. This new film imagines what the masks – now subjects, and not objects – would say. Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism is spoken in Lingala for the first time. This speech is still a critical mirror for Europe. Under The White Mask is limited to the elements already existing in 1958.
- Director
- Matthias De Groof
- Writer
- Matthias De Groof
- Producer
- Daniël De Valck
