White Frame presents A collaboration with Le Festival cinémas d’Afrique – Lausanne
White Frame presents two curated film programs from recent works from the African continent and Switzerland. For this fifth edition, White Frame is partnering with Le Festival cinémas d’Afrique – Lausanne as guest co-curator with Chantal Molleur from White Frame.
White Frame (WF) produces and curates exhibitions and screenings, offering artists greater visibility for their art. Established in 2011 in Basel, Switzerland, our non-for-profit nomadic association operates mainly at the intersection of video art, cinema and photography. We strive to forge national and international networks and generate collaboration. We initiate and implement projects and facilitate exchange between Swiss and international artists, institutions, independent curators, festival programmers, writers and the public. www.whiteframe.ch The Festival cinémas d’Afrique – Lausanne is an annual event, the only one of it’s kind in Switzerland, which offers an original program of films from or about Africa. It promotes and distributes films from all over the continent : fictions, documentaries, cartoons, from mainstream comedy to a more in-depth historical investigation, including short films or first works of young directors. Supporting African filmmakers, it gives Swiss audience the opportunity to discover the various cultures of this rich continent. www.cine-afrique.ch
White Frame presents The Nightlight Screenings 2021 Friday, August 20th, 2021 Garden of the Christoph Merian Foundation St. Alban-Vorstadt 5, Basel Grill & Bar at 20:00 The Nightlight Screenings 2021 include a mixed selection of eleven titles divided into two programs. The information on the individual titles are listed alphabetically.
In case of bad weather the event will take place at the Museum Tinguely, Paul Sacher-Anlage 2, Basel
White Frame’s selection Écorce
A film by Samuel Patthey and Silvain Monney Switzerland, 2020, 15 min, colour and b/w, no dialogue In a hidden place where time seems suspended, a retirement home reveals its daily routine. Drawn in pencil, the residents come to life on paper. Everyone is active, rests or bends to the schedule of medication, meals or games. Around them, machines blink, caregivers are busy and crucifixes remind them of the death that lies in wait. Time fades away and nearby, the forest stretches out.
The Game
A film by Roman Hodel Switzerland, 2020, 17 min, Colour, English, Turkish, German with English subtitles A whistle. It gets loud in the spectator stands. The players protest angrily. The commentators follow the action on the field. In the middle of it, the referee. The whole stadium watches him. Now he has to decide. With the referee Fedayi San we experience the
highs and lows of a football game, what it means to earn respect on the field and to direct the energy of an entire stadium.
Les Traces
A film by Pablo Briones Switzerland, 2020, 13 min, Colour, Spanish with English subtitles Domitila has been an undocumented domestic worker living in Geneva for more than 20 years. After losing her daughter, she finds herself in an unprecedented economic and social precariousness.
Tempête Silencieuse
A film by Anaïs Moog Switzerland, 2019, 13 min, Colour, Arabic with English subtitles From the shores of the Atlantic to those of the Mediterranean, the director meets the women whose faces and voices bear witness to the loss of loved ones and ruined hopes. The mourning and hopeless waiting of the bodies find in the incessant movement of the waves a dimension of painful meditation.
Aletsch Negative
A film by Laurence Bonvin Switzerland, 2019, 11 min, Colour, no dialogue The Aletsch Glacier is the longest and largest glacier of the Alps. According to glaciologists, most glaciers will have disappeared by the end of this century and only bits of Aletsch will remain. Against the unescapable, the film takes us through a captivating visual and sonic experience in which scale, temporality and our perception of the nature of the images we see, are questioned. A sensory journey to the belly of the glacier.
Festival cinémas d’Afrique – Lausanne selection Machini
A film by Frank Mukunday and Tétshim, RDC/Belgium, 2019, Colour, French with English Subtitles By necessity and by the force of the machine, men have become sleepwalking beings, slaves of the mine, which slowly destroys everything : the city, the environment, the animals and the humans. This stop-motion films use stones and repurposed materials showing each individual, made of stone, chalk and earth, as the exploited land.
Peau de chagrin
A film by Baloji RDC/Belgium, 2018, 9 min, Colour, Lingala, French with English subtitles Peau de Chagrin / Bleu de Nuit is the visually enigmatic music video from Belgian-Congolese musician Baloji, taken from his album 137 Avenue Kamiana. The image is saturated with thick buttery colour, every syllable stretches from sound to colour to texture, all within moments Baloji’s
directorial zeal is just as compelling as his limber flow. His verses pepper the beat, shading emotion with a captivating hue.
1er Octobre
A film by Emmanuel Manna Guebli Tchad, 2019, 5 min, Colour, French with English subtitles In a country where the teachers don’t receive their due salary, how to guarantee every child the right to go to school and have access to knowledge which will help them prepare for their adult life…
Nightshift
A film by Karim Shaaban Egypt, 2020, 14 min, Colour, Arabic with English subtitles Zein is a young man working as a customer service representative for an internet service provider. During one night shift, way past midnight, he receives a call from Akram, a customer, who complains about a malfunction, Akram’s frustration starts growing, exposing Zein to the drudgery of his work, his powerlessness, and the ugliness of his life.
Chebet
A film by Anthony Koros Kenja, 2016, 12 min, Colour, Arabic with English subtitles In the beautiful landscape of Kenyan mountains, Chebet, a pregnant woman, works hard in the tea plantation. Leaving in a small house, trying to face the challenges of life, she decides to take a drastic action when her alcoholic husband comes home drunk again.
Talvizion
A film by Moussa Dicko Mauritania, 2017, 8 min, Colour, Walof with English subtitles In 1981, in a Mauritanian village, a television set arrives for the first time in a private house. The young boys are very curious about it. Hamada, a young boy, decides to build a television out of cardboard to entertain his friends.
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White Frame would like to thank: the filmmakers and artists, Christoph Merian Stiftung and Swisslos-Fonds Basel-Stadt for their support. Tweaklab AG and Museum Tinguely for the nice collaboration.