2022 | French | Experimental

Speech for a Melting Statue

  • French - 10 mins
  • Director | Rob Jacobs, Nizar Saleh, Anne Reijniers, Paul Shemisi, Marie Paule Mugeni, Collectif Faire-part
  • Writer | Marie Paule Mugeni, Rob Jacobs
  • Producer | -

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In June 2020, thousands of people took to the streets in Brussels to make a fist against police brutality and institutional racism in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. For a moment, it seemed that some demonstrators would take down the statue of colonial king Leopold II in a nearby square. For now the sculpture is still standing, but poet Marie Paule Mugeni already prepares her speech for the day it will be removed.

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