24th(2022)
| Opening Film (1) | Discovery (12) |
| Asian Shorts (20) | I-Teens (6) |
| New Currents (26) | The Landscape of Here in Now (5) |
| Polemics (6) | Queer Rainbow (7) |
| Feminist Collective (9) | The moments with Yeri HAN (10) |
| Remembering Oblivion (4) | Restored (10) |
| Film X Gender (2) | Barrier Free (1) |
| Documentary Ock Rang (2) | Special Screening (1) |
| In Memory of KANG Soo-yeon (1) |
Prism
An VAN. DIENDEREN, Rosine MBAKAM, Eléonore YAMEOGO
- Belgium
- 2021
- Asian Premiere
- 78min
- DCP
- color
Asian Premiere
SYNOPSIS
PROGRAM NOTE
Is technology really neutral? Is it possible to use devices such as cameras to record objects and images without prejudice? Has the decision to color-correct dark skin been a deliberate bias formed throughout history? Or is prejudice an unintended product of the invention of cameras that focus on bright skin tones? Prism critically intervenes in these issues and makes them an issue of debate. Belgian film director An van. Dienderen, Cameroonian Rosin Mbakam, and Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso raise this issue. They also raise questions about the ideology behind camera shooting.
They visit professors, actors, and cinematographers to converse and naturally expand to issues surrounding their backgrounds, races, and experiences. The film is filled with multi-layered connections, such as Western and non-Western, Northern and Southern Hemispheres, questions about the world of homogeneity, and inner racism. For these producers, who think of cinema as a meeting between people rather than a concept, camera-mediated film work is also a process of discovering other possibilities for capturing various objects that have been marginalized. [KIM Seo-yul]
Director
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An VAN. DIENDERENAn VAN. DIENDEREN
Van Dienderen is a Belgian filmmaker. She obtained a PhD in comparative cultural sciences and has been interested in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary work, relating fields such as film practice and anthropological research while curating and teaching with a focus on cultural identity. -
Rosine MBAKAMRosine MBAKAM
Mbakam grew up in a traditional family in Cameroon. She chose cinema at an early age and trained in Yaoundé thanks to the Italian NGO COE, and there she was introduced to imagery, editing, and directing. In 2007, she enrolled at INSAS, in Brussels, for a training course in directing. -
Eléonore YAMEOGOEléonore YAMEOGO
Originally from Burkina Faso, Yameogo belongs to a generation of female African directors who are eager to tackle demanding film subjects. Her career began on the film sets of Ouagadougou, where she acquired field experience before studying cinema in Burkina Faso, Belgium, and France.
Credit
- ProducerNatalie GIELEN
- Screenwriter An VAN. DIENDEREN, Rosine MBAKAM, Eléonore YAMEOGO
- Cinematography Léo LEFèVRE, Tristan GALAND, Philippe RADOUX
- Editor Effi WEISS, Nina DE VROOME, Geoffroy CERNAIX
- Sound Bruno SCHWEISGUTH, Loïc VILLIOT, Pascal MOREAU
