Mayday 2015

Sector IX B 2015

Taking inspiration from L’Afrique fantôme — the controversial diary by French surrealist writer Michel Leiris recounting his participation in the ambitious Dakar-Djibouti ethnographic expedition of the 1930s — Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc’s arresting first feature reflects on identity, cultural appropriation, and the transference of memory through objects.

Foreword to Guns for Banta 2011

Originally an analog slide show made for two projectors, this work recounts the making of Sarah Maldoror's lost and surely never-to-be-seen first film Guns for Banta.

An Italian Film (Africa Addio) 2012

An Italian Film (Africa Addio) takes the title of Jacopetti and Prosperi's famous 1960 film as the first step of a major revision project of the past and present notions of colonialism and imperialist nostalgia, analysing how they were transposed and pervade in the present globalised contexts.