Baudouin Mouanda: Congolese Dreams

  • Baudouin Mouanda: Congolese Dreams
Genre : Biography
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2013
Format : Short
Running time : 26 (in minutes)
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/artscape/2013/04/201342211817638730.html



We follow this internationally acclaimed photographer as he explores beauty in unlikely places.

Baudouin Mouanda's Les Sapeurs project won him The Young Talent Award at the influential African Photography Biennial, Bamako Encounters, in 2009.

Since then Les Sapeurs and his follow-up project, Pavement of Knowledge, have continue to be exhibited around the world.

In Congolese Dreams, we follow Mouanda as he works on his latest project, The Dream. Through this project, he explores beauty in unlikely places - by asking women to pose in the same white wedding dress in different locations - from rubbish dumps to crowded trains.

We see how Mouanda juxtaposes different worlds to create strikingly beautiful pictures, and the obstacles facing photographers in the Congo.

As part of the Generation Elili collective, he is active in promoting Congolese photography and staging exhibitions for the local community, even when everything from infrastructure to finance seems to be against them.

"I look at Africa with positivity," says Mouanda, "I don't see Africa from the perspective of people who never came here. I see Africa as a continent that will surprise people tomorrow. I'm sure of it."

Filmmaker: Philippe Cordey. 2013, Congo DRC, Documentary.

Prod: Al Jazeera / Artscape

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