2022 | France | Experimental

Sol in the Dark

  • French, English French 51 mins
  • Director | Mawena Yehouessi
  • Writer | Mawena Yehouessi
  • Producer | Mawena Yehouessi, Olivier Marboeuf

STATUS: Released

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Sol sees Afrofuturism as a link between past and present, and as a rebuttal to a world in which “we are all commodities within a same architecture of violence”. Diffracting their observations, dreams, beliefs, and poetry through an ambiguous, collectively imagined figure named “Lascar” — an antiquated term referring to Southeast Asian sailors on European ships, a present pejorative for diasporic, suburban French teens, and any other number of definitions depending— Yehouessi assembles a team of incisive young collaborators whose multiplicitous views yield a fluid and aesthetically bombastic imagining of Blackness along the space-time continuum. These ideas, sounds and images may be individually familiar, but as the film obliquely states, “The difference? Is (precisely) in the plural.”

Collective Collage Afrofuturism Mythic Experimental
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