GENTRY
A documentary feature about the artist Herbert Gentry. In development.
Co-director: Madubuko Diakité
Producer: Salad Hilowle (Spektrum)
Co-producer: Elin Eriksson (MDEMC)
TOWARDS THE NEW BAROQUE OF VOICES
Director: Manthia Diawara
Editor: Christian Rossipal
Commissioned by the
São Paulo Art Biennial 2020, Brazil, and the AMANT gallery in Brooklyn, New York.
Towards the New Baroque of Voices (2021) is a new video installation by Manthia Diawara in which the New York-based author and filmmaker creates a parliament of thinkers and artists from his archive of raw film footage dating from 1985 to the present.
Anchoring this work in the voice and thought of Martinican philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant (1928-2011), Diawara creates imaginary dialogues on Africa and the African Diaspora.
This installation features original footage, some of which previously unseen, of writers, actors, activists, and philosophers, such as: Maryse Condé, Fatou Diome, Danny Glover, David Hammons, Sembène Ousmane, Jean Rouch, Wole Soyinka, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and Aminata Traoré. By cutting and assembling different interviews, Diawara brings together the past, present, and future in a contemporaneous spatial relationship. This film-essay gives shape to a recurring, imagined relational reality that allows for spaces of freedom. In it, ideas are never fully exhausted, and the filmmaker-essayist serves as a guiding narrator.
From the 34th São Paulo Biennial. Photo: Levi Fanan / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
Tills vidare (Until Further Notice)
Fiction short film, 10 min, 2017.
Director: Christian Rossipal
An office gets furnished. Shelves, chairs and a projector. Then it's filled with people who practice pitching sales at each other over the phone. Poetically portrayed about the temporary job market of today, its carefully acquired phrasing, cheap lunches and intrinsic loneliness.
– Tobias Åkesson, Gothenburg International Film Festival
Screened at:
Gothenburg International Film Festival 2017
Brazilian International Labour Film Festival: Mostra CineTrabalho 2017
Stockmotion 2017
Songblocker
Visuals for intervention at Transmediale 2017.
In collaboration with Maria Eriksson, Rasmus Fleischer and Patrick Vonderau.
Part of the research project Streaming Heritage which resulted in the publication of
Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music (MIT, 2019).
Work / Work
Dual screen video installation, 2015.
Screened at the exhibition halls Färgfabriken (2015) and Stiftsgården Stjärnholm (2015), in Sweden.
Närbild (Close-up)
Short fiction film, 7 min, 2013.
Two friends are drifting apart. During a smoking-break at work, a social status game unfolds putting their relationship to the test.
Screened at:
Gothenburg International Film Festival
Helsinki International Film Festival
Uppsala International Film Festival
Stockmotion (Special Mention for Best Acting)