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Under The White Mask: The Film That Haesaerts Could Have Made (2021)
Directed by Matthias De Groof
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.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Matthias De Groof
- Writer
- Matthias De Groof
- Editor
- Neel Cockx, Matthias De Groof
- Producer
- Daniël De Valck
Details
- Original title
- Onder het Witte Masker: De film die Haesaerts had kunnen maken
- Release date
- 2021-12-29
- Runtime
- 9m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- LN
- Spoken languages
- Lingala
- Countries
- Belgium
- Production
- Cobra Films