Under the White Mask: The Film That Haesaerts Could Have Made (2020)

In the original film, Belgian artist Paul Haesaerts strives to reduce Congo masks to a portal upon which to elucidate the experience of the African people to him, a people he regards as "strange". In this reinterpretation by director Matthias De Groof, also from Belgium, the French voice and narration, the colonizer's language, leaves the stage, and thus we hear the masks speak. They look back at us and, in Lingala, the Bantu language, carry the winds and rays of one of the most renowned texts by poet Aimé Césaire: "Discourse on colonialism".