Prisme = Prism / Elektrischer Schnellseher, Tândor Productions, Onezik présentent; un film de Eléonore Yameogo, An van. Dienderen, & Rosine Mbakam ; realisée et dirigée par Eléonore Yameogo, An van. Dienderen, & Rosine Mbakam.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Yameogo, Eléonore, film director.

Van Dienderen, An, film director.

Mbakam, Rosine Mfetgo, film director.

Cernaix, Geoffroy, film producer.

Weiss, Effi, editor of moving image work.

Vroome, Nina de, editor of moving image work.

Elektrischer Schnellseher, production company.

Tándor Productions, production company.

Onezik, production company.

Icarus Films, distributor.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Racism in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Motion pictures.

Racism in art.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Feature films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (1 hr., 18 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Other Title:

Prism

Available from some providers with title: Prism

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Elektrischer Schnellseher, Tândor Productions, Onezik, [2021]

Language Note:

In French, with English subtitles.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

Is the technology of photography and motion pictures inherently racist? For PRISM, Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Rosine Mbakam, from Cameroon, and Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso, to work together on a film in which the differences in their skin color, and experiences as filmmakers, serve as points-of-departure to explore this provocative question. Invented and standardized with white skin in mind, "the aesthetics and emulsions weren't created for us," the film director and actor Sylvestre Amoussou says in PRISM. And that underlying issue remains, even with digital technology: such white-centricity has meant that photographic media assume and privilege whiteness. PRISM problematizes the objectivity of the camera and its inequality of power to tackle other inequalities based on skin color as well. And as the film deconstructs these issues, the filmmakers are also trying to reconstruct, by creating in a collaborative manner, and self-consciously attempting to overcome these biases.

Credits:

Editor: Geoffroy Cernaix, Effi Weiss, Nina de Vroome.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Distributed by Icarus Films.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed December 02, 2021).

Publisher Number:

if-prism Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.