Voices from Zaïre
1990
Masters of the streets: the popular paintings of Zaire. In Kinshasa and Kinsangani, in shops, bars, and small workshops, the walls speak. The language of advertising, but above all, of history, mythology, and social commentary. Masters of the streets—Samba, Moke, Syms, Mbuecky, and other self-taught painters—offer us their visions of dreams and reality. With humor, sometimes biting. With frankness, in both form and content. An original artistic explosion, filmed within its context of social and cultural upheaval.
Credits
Director: Dirk Dumon
Image: Dieter Van Leemputten
Sound: Daniel Pilatte
Editing: Gilberte Coenen
Production
Cobra Films / BRT (Belgium)
Co-production
CBA (Audiovisual Center in Brussels)
Reviews
Masters of the streets_Centre_du_film-6f88d.pdf
Award
Library Prize at the Festival du Réel in Paris
Broadcasts
BRTN / RTBF / Arte / TV5 / TF1 / TSR / TV Ontario / OY-YLEIS / TV Galicia / ARCANAL / TV3 Barcelona / VPRO
In theaters
Beaubourg
IFS, University of Laval
Northw Univ. lib Cornell Univ Mus. For Ethnology
Festival(s)
Paris Festival of Black Cultures Films
Views of Africa (Montreal)
Moscow Film Festival
Magicians of the Earth (Paris)
FIFF (Namur)
Filming at Any Price
Ghent and Brussels Film Festivals
Margaret Mead Film Festival - New York
FESPACO (Ouagadougou)
Amascultura (Lisbon)
Lyon Film Festival
French Institute of Seville. Film on Art (Montreal)