LISTEN TO THE BEAT OF OUR IMAGES (15’, 2021)
by Audrey Jean-Baptiste & Maxime Jean-Baptiste

When Algeria gained independence from France in 1962, French president Charles de Gaulle urgently needed to find a new home for the CNES space center. Thanks to its ideal coastal position near the equator, he chose the little town of Kourou in the overseas territory of French Guiana. But no one gave a thought to the consequences of building a rocket launching facility on the local population living there.

Archive CNES footage of the construction of the space center and scenes from life in the new, modern Kourou are accompanied by an evocative soundtrack and voiceovers, shifting the perspective onto the people who until now have been rendered invisible.

ALBERTA’S ROOM (18’, 2022)
by Victoire Karera Kampire

After the assassination of her son Marvin Gay, Alberta goes back to his apartment in Ostend. The room in which she stays will be the theater of her journey towards resilience. An experimental film on the border of documentary and fiction about absence and grief.

Alberta’s Room is a journey into the dreams and nightmares of Alberta Gay. The film revisits the tragic fate of a pop icon and explores the female perspective of a drama that had always been portrayed as a male story.

KEEPING TIME (30’, 2023)
by Darol Olu Kae

The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra has been a legend in the LA jazz world for over 60 years. But since the death of its founder, Horace Tapscott, the band has spent the last three decades ebbing with the tide of history. Keeping Time follows new band leader Mekala Session as he tries to honour the legacy of the group while establishing a new path forward.

Keeping Time is a narrative short film about art-making and collaboration in and through time that focuses on the relationships that make music possible. Keeping Time is an audiovisual homage to musicians who pass on the magic and the communities that nourish them.

SPEECH FOR A MELTING STATUE (10’, 2023)
by Collectif Faire-part

In June 2020, thousands of people took to the streets in Brussels to make a fist against police brutality and institutional racism in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. For a moment, it seemed that some demonstrators would take down the statue of colonial king Leopold II in a nearby square. For now the sculpture is still standing, but an optimistic poet already prepares her speech for the day it will be removed.

Archival images of colonial monuments that arrive in a museum in Kinshasa, DR Congo are paired with a ceremonial text by poet Marie Paule Mugeni. The voice-over presents the official removal of a Brussels colonial statue as if scheduled for the very next day. However, in opposition to Kinshasa, there are no concrete plans for the statues’ takedown up to now.