An van. Dienderen

Prisme

Eléonore Yameogo, An van. Dienderen

For Prism, Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels-based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris-based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to work together on a film in which the differences in their skin color serves as a departure to explore their experiences with the biased 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.

Lili

An van. Dienderen

Maaike Neuville

Women with a perfect Caucasian skin are filmed beside a colour chart to set the colour balance: exoticism or racism? They are 'Lilis' or ‘China Girls’, women with porcelain-white skin. A Kodak director describes his encounter with the 'real' Lili.