African Mirror
Mischa Hedinger
Saturday 14. 09. 17:00
Fontána CinemaFor decades, Swiss filmmaker and traveller René Gardi popularized an image of Africa as a pre-modern place filled with beautiful “savages”. Of course, it is idealized, colonial and racist image. African Mirror, composed only of archival footage, deconstructs Gardi’s work whose ambivalent pictures mirror our European self-conception in myriad ways. The film reveals image production as a form of colonialism and shows how we have refused to truly look into this mirror to this very day.
CH, 2019, 84 min.; de, fr / en sub / sk tit
Director:
Mischa Hedinger
Screenplay:
Mischa Hedinger
editor:
Mischa Hedinger, Philipp Diettrich
Music:
Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt)
Partner:
ton und bild