Jean-Michel Kibuski
2021Prince Loseno
Jean-Michel Kibuski
This short film utilizes intricate clay animation to tell of King Ngolo, who is without a male heir. Jealousies among his three wives and with his first love — now the court witch doctor — thwart birth of a successor. Finally blessed with a male heir, the king dies during the Prince's coronation; "Birth and death are twins in the destiny of man," concludes the narrator-griot.
Prince Loseno
Kinshasa, Septembre Noir
Jean-Michel Kibushi, Jean-Michel Kibuski
An animated documentary about children's drawings from the military pillaging that hit their community in September 1991. This short uses limited animated techniques interspersing the children's drawings with drawings from Kibushi himself.
Black September in Kinshasa
Le crapaud chez ses beaux-parents
Jean-Michel Kibuski
Rooted in the oral tale recounted by the Tetela in Sankuru, Democratic Republic of Congo, this story explains how it came to be that the Fox ate the Chicken, the Chicken ate the Termite, the Termite ate the Stick and the Stick ate the Toad, when the Toad arrives at his in-laws’ home and is served a meal with a single spoon, sparking off a terrible row!
The Toad Who Visits His In-Laws
