Under The White Mask: The Film That Haesaerts Could Have Made
Synopsis
Under the White Mask: The Film Haesaerts Could Have Made uses fragments of Under the Black Mask, a 1958 film about Congolese art directed by the Belgian artist Paul Haesaerts, which has been qualified as colonial propaganda. This new film imagines what the masks – now subjects, and not objects – would say. Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism is spoken in Lingala for the first time. This speech is still a critical mirror for Europe. Under The White Mask is limited to the elements already existing in 1958.
Under The White Mask: The Film That Haesaerts Could Have Made (2021) is a 9 min documentary short film by Matthias De Groof. Under the White Mask: The Film Haesaerts Could Have Made uses fragments of Under the Black Mask, a 1958 film about Co... Selected for Bolton International Film Festival (2022).
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Full credits
| Director | Matthias De Groof |
| Cast | Maravilha Munto (Narrator) |
| Screenplay | Matthias De Groof |
| Producer | Daniël De Valck |
| Editing | Matthias De Groof, Neel Cockx |
| Sound | Neel Cockx |
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| IMDb | tt15727962 |
| TMDB | 837012 |
Additional data: TMDB.
