Les Mouchoirs de Kabila
Large parts of Goma were covered with lava after the eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano in January 2002. Today kids live in the ruins on the lava. They sell paper hankies to grown-ups in the city, and lava rocks to construction builders. Meanwhile, the kids are building their own city on top of the old one, a city complete with radios and tv’s, white jeeps and blue helmets, presidents and vice-presidents, commercials and hate campaigns, cemeteries and election fever.
The kids emerge from the lava, as it were, and reveal the world underneath the rubble.
Film
Les Mouchoirs de Kabila (screen 1, 1'50)
Les Mouchoirs de Kabila (screen 3, 3')
Les Mouchoirs de Kabila (screen 2, 2'30)
Les Mouchoirs de Kabila/ First Elections (15')
Credits
Video-installation / 7 channels / shooting format super 8mm and mini-DV/ screening format: digital file / aspect ratio: 4:3 / 2005
Swahili spoken with English and French subtitles
Director/Camera/Producer: Sarah Vanagt
Editing: Inneke Van Waeyenberghe
Sound Design: Pete Connelly
Translator & Researcher in Goma: Gatambi Nicolas
Translator in Brussels: Malekera Albert
Produced by balthasar vzw
With the support of argos tentoonstellingen vzw, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie & Sacd/Scam
The single-channel version of Les Mouchoirs de Kabila is called FIRST ELECTIONS.
distribution: www.argosarts.org