Kinshasa mboka té...A city unusual beyond belief. It is a paradoxe and a distraction. It lives on ever-renewing processes of thriving and surviving. People there are solide as rock and fragile as glass. Life is a wild race there. We must remain alert and wide awake. Kinshasa doesn't belong to anyone, yet it belongs to everybody. This is smoke and mirrors, what we exerpience there, we won't experience anywhere else, a total vibration. Everybody gives it a color, an interpretation.
Born in 1977, Douglas Ntimasiemi is a Congolese filmmaker. His unusual life path has led him from economics studies (which he holds a degree in) to cinema (several courses in Congo and France) through comics and video. He's always enjoyed telling stories. This led him to production and directing of audiovisual projects, usually short film.
Born in Brussels in 1978, Raffi Aghekian traveled the world to discover its traditions, looking for the differences that enrich us. As a visual anthropologist and cultural producer, he's developed several initiatives since 2005, in Brussels, Kinshasa and Lubumbashi. Initially, he has taking interested during his stay in Kinshasa in "Voir avec Julie", a Congolese comic book.
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