PRISM

Copyright artist(s) and courtesy argos

Artist(s)

Year

2021

Duration

01:17:49

Original format

DIGITAL FILE

Color

col.

Color system

Languages

Spoken: French , English US
Subtitles: English UK

Availability

Distribution

For PRISM Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to make a film in which the differences in their skin color serves as a departure to explore their experiences with the limitations of the medium. Photographic media are technologically and ideologically biased, favoring Caucasian skin. Such white-centricity means that the photographic media assume, privilege and construct whiteness. PRISM problematizes the objectivity of the camera and its inequality of power to tackle other inequalities in society based on skin color.