Prism
An Van Dienderen, Rosine Mbakam, Eléonore Yameogo
2021 - 78 min - Vidéo Full HD - Couleur - Belgique

For "Prism" Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to make a film in which the differences in their skin color serves as a departure to explore their experiences with the limitations of the medium.
Photographic media are technologically and ideologically biased, favoring Caucasian skin. Such white-centricity means that the photographic media assume, privilege and construct whiteness. "Prism" problematizes the objectivity of the camera and its inequality of power to tackle other inequalities in society based on skin color.

Cinéma | Identité culturelle | Image | Photographie | Racisme | Technologie


Author-Director : An Van Dienderen, Rosine Mbakam, Eléonore Yameogo
Photography : Leo Lefevre, Tristan Galand, Philippe Radoux-Bazzini
Sound : Bruno Schweisguth, Loïc Villiot, Pascal Moreau
Editing : Geoffroy Cernaix, Nina De Vroome, Effi Weiss
Delegate Producer : Elektrischer Schnellseher Vzr
Co-producer : Tândor productions ASBL
Co-producer : Onezik

Distribution


Distributor : Argos (Center for Art and Media), Andana films

Distinctions

2022 - Cinéma du réel, Paris (France) : Sélection
2022 - CPH:DOX - Copenhagen international documentary film festival, Copenhague (Danemark) : Sélection
2022 - Open City London Documentary Festival, Londres (Royaume-Uni) : Sélection
2022 - Afrika Filmfestival, Leuven (Belgique) : Sélection
2021 - New York Film Festival, New York (États-Unis) : Sélection