Prix Prince Claus 2015 : le cinéaste J-P Bekolo, avec Jelili Atiku (Nigeria), Amakhosi (Zimbabwe) et Y'en a Marre (Sénégal), parmi les lauréats

© DR (en photo: Jean-Pierre Bekolo, cinéaste camerounais)
Genre : Prizes
Contact details The Prince Claus Fund Herengracht 603 1017 CE Amsterdam Phone : +31 (0)20 344 9160 Fax : +31 (0)20 344 9166
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Release/publication date : August 2015
Published on : 08/09/2015
http://www.princeclausfund.org

What are the Prince Claus Awards?
The Prince Claus Awards honour outstanding achievements in the field of culture and development. The awards are presented annually to individuals, groups and organisations whose cultural actions have a positive impact on the development of their societies.

2015 Prince Claus Laureate:
Newsha Tavakolian (photojournalist, Iran), she is Principa
Latif Al-Ani (photographer, Iraq)
Amakhosi (theatre and cultural organisation, Zimbabwe)
Jelili Atiku (performance artist, Nigeria)
Jean-Pierre Bekolo (filmmaker, Cameroon)
Grupo Etcétera (public-art collective, Argentina/Chile)
Perhat Khaliq (musician and singer-songwriter, China)
Fatos Lubonja (writer, editor & public intellectual, Albania)
Ossama Mohammed (filmmaker, Syria)
Oksana Shatalova (visual artist, critic and curator, Kazakhstan)
Y'en a Marre (collective of hip-hop musicians and journalists, Senegal)

Jean-Pierre Bekolo
Cameroon
Film

Jean-Pierre Bekolo (1966, Yaounde) is an avant-garde filmmaker and socio-cultural activist whose imaginative work overturns stereotypes of Africa and African cinema. His entertaining films operate on multiple layers, engaging viewers with thrilling stories, biting humour and dramatic aesthetics.
An advocate of artistic freedom, Bekolo is committed to realising Africa's philosophies and cultures. Quartier Mozart shows the hybridity, complexity and humour in urban Yaounde in a playful, hip-hop reinvention of a traditional tale about gender, power, magic and politics.
Aristotle's Plot parodies rules and definitions, action movies and ‘African' cinema made for European audiences, while aesthetically reflecting on the nature of existence, its ambiguities and absence of rigid categories. Aiming to incite viewers to conceive an alternate reality, his fake documentary The President is a hilarious, biting satire on African leaders who cling to power, and his dystopian, sci-fi comic thriller with stunning surreal visuals, Les Saignantes, presents extreme corruption, feminism, social decay and intergenerational conflict for review.Bekolo's work on the re-representation of Africa also includes insightful documentaries that seek to educate, such as Grandmother's Grammar on groundbreaking Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambety, and Les Choses et Les Mots de Mudimbe on the renowned Congolese philosopher, multi-linguist and uber-polymath.
Jean-Pierre Bekolo is awarded for his creative resistance, irreverence and eclectic African reworking of dominant cinema conventions; for creating a unique body of innovative work that both entertains and transmits profound socio-political messages; for his highly original aesthetics; for challenging misrepresentations of African cultures; and for re-affirming the power of film.
Report from the 2015 Prince Claus Awards Committee

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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