JUJU FACTORY (Dir. Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, 2007, 97min, Dem. Rep. Congo | Belgium) – An intelligent commentary on exile and migration, Belgium’s colonial history, racism in Europe, the psyche of the colonised and the de-colonised…
BALUFU BAKUPA KANYINDA was born on 30 October 1957 in Kinshasa (DRC). He studied sociology, history and philosophy in Brussels, Belgium. He took courses in filmmaking in France, the United Kingdom and the United States. From 1979 to 1981 he was an instructor in the French Cultural Centre in Lubumbashi. In 1991 he made his first documentary, Dix mille ans de cinéma, and in 1993 released a second documentary on Thomas Sankara. His first fiction film was Le Damier – Papa National Oyé! (The Draughtsmen Clash) made in 1996. He was a member of the board of short films at CNC in France from 1999 to 2001. Balufu was a member of the Input 2000 (International Public Television) in Cape Town, South Africa and a member of CreaTV, UNESCO’s program for televisions in the South between 2000 and 2003. Bakupa-Kanyinda is a writer and a poet as well as a film director. New York University invited him to lecture in 2006/2007 at the NYU-Ghana campus in Accra. Balufu is a founding member of the Guild of African filmmakers and producers.
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Saturday 27.09. | 15:00-15:45 BELINDA KAZEEM „Naming what was once Unnameable“ Experiences of being made “other” are part of growing up in the Diaspora, especially when there is a somewhat silent understanding of who is thought of as part of the nation and who is not. In the Austrian context people of color are not thought…
27.09. | 14:00-14:45 ABDALLAH SALISU “The Black Victim Complex And The White Savior Complex” What is positive racism? It is a form of patronization and condescension of victims of racism and white supremacy in a way that makes it impossible for them to neither free themselves completely nor break the structural and systemic operating norms….
26.09. | 21:45-22:15 Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda SKYPE Q&A (Questions & Answers) with the director after the screening of Juju Factory
