Young people from Brussels play a well-known European memory game, in which players must repeat and then add to an ever-growing list of items that they would take with them on a trip. But there’s a bitter twist to this version of the game: all the items need to come from a packing list of 8,000 objects from a colonial expedition to the former Belgian Congo. The list includes a spear, ten beetles, an ivory horn, an elephant-hair chain, and 140 meters of film of pygmies fighting.
Sarah Vanagt
BE 2022
32 min | French
Sarah Vanagt
Born in 1976, her documentaries, video installations and photographs connect the history and origins of cinema. Her work is shown equally in museums and at film festivals.
Films
After Years of Walking 2003 | Begin Began Begun 2005 (2. UX) | First Elections 2006 (2. UX) | Silent Elections 2009 | The Wave 2012 | Dust Breeding 2013 (8. UX) | Girl with a fly 2013 | Waking Hours 2015 | Still Holding Still 2015 | Les porteurs 2023
Credits
B: Sarah Vanagt | K: Ruben Desiere, Jonathan Wannyn | S: Effi Weiss
T: Gedeon Depauw, Kwinten van Laethem | SD: Philippe Ciompi
P: Sarah Vanagt, Alice Lemaire | V: CBA