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Icarus Films | Release Date: October 8, 2021
Summary: For Prism, Belgian filmmaker An van Dienderen invited Brussels-based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris-based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to work together on a film in which the differences in their skin color serves as a departure to explore their different experiences with the biased limitations of the medium. Photographic media is technologically and ideologically biased, favoring Caucasian skin. Such white-centricity means that photography assumes and privileges whiteness. How can the three filmmakers with different skin colors, be together in one frame? How can they create a common film on this topic? The film problematizes the objectivity of the camera and its inequality of power to tackle other inequalities in society based on skin color. While the film deconstructs these issues, it also tries to reconstruct by creating a film in a collaborative manner, which overcomes these biases. We envision Prism as a chain letter, interweaving scenes made by the three filmmakers in dialogue with each other. [Icarus Films]

Details

Runtime: 78 min
Rating: Not Rated
Official Site: https://icarusfilms.com/if-prism
Production: Onezik
Genres: Documentary
Country: BE
Languages: English, French
Director Credit
An van Dienderen Director
Éléonore Yaméogo Director
Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam Director
Writer Credit
An van Dienderen Writer
Éléonore Yaméogo Writer
Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam Writer
Principal Cast Credit
Bwanga Pilipili Principal Cast
David Fricker Principal Cast
Diarra Sourank Principal Cast
Jean-Dominique Burton Principal Cast
Jeroen Perceval Principal Cast
Moya Michael Principal Cast
Patrick Leboutte Principal Cast
Sylvestre Amoussou Principal Cast
Tella Kpomahou Principal Cast
Thierry Odeyn Principal Cast
Cast Credit
Lydia Zei Cast
Maureen Vandenberghe Cast
Producer Credit
Natalie Gielen Producer