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Prism

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