film profile], presented this week in the Berlinale’s Forum section, ponders two legends who stand opposed, who merge but who also diverge:
Omar Blondin Diop, a Senegalese activist, intellectual and shooting star who disappeared far too soon from the skies of the post-May 1968 and post-Independence era, and the films “in the making” of
Jean-Luc Godard, particularly
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By way of this cinematic gesture which oscillates and flows between a documentary and a filmed essay,
Vincent Meessen - a Belgian contemporary artist whose video work is exhibited all over the world - examines past and modern-day Senegal, as well as the power of collusion between political and artistic thought.
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Heritage activist Mwazulu Diyabanza, from Congo, has been on a grabbing spree of African artefacts in European museums that were stolen from former colonies. His actions have left him with a total bill of $9,771 in fines.
What is driving Diyabanza to take ethnographic collections that are on display in museums across Europe? It’s his frustration with stringent ancient laws that go back to the 16th century in most European countries that consider cultural heritage materials stolen from Africa as “inalienable”.
Diyabanza, 41, has always defended himself on the basis that his actions cannot be considered theft because the objects were already stolen property.