“...and we Antilleans, we know only too well that – as they say in the islands – the black man has a fear of blue eyes.” - Franz Fanon, Black Skin White Masks A speculative portrait of a Dutchman living in the Surinamese jungle – fixing canoe motors, accused of eating the locals’ children.
He Who Eats Children Film
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18:OCT 15h00–16h12 73'
Batalha Centro de Cinema
Batalha Centro de Cinema
Part of the session: Ben Russell #2
Ben Russell
Ben Russell (1976) is an American artist, filmmaker and curator whose work lies at the intersection of ethnography and psychedelia. His films and installations are in direct conversation with the history of the documentary image, providing a time-based inquiry into trance phenomena. Russell was an exhibiting artist at documenta 14 (2017) and his work has been presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art Chicago, the Venice Film Festival and the Berlinale, among others. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), a FIPRESCI International Critics Prize (IFFR 2010, Gijón 2017), premiered his second and third feature films at the Locarno Film Festival (2013, 2017) and won the Encounters Grand Prize at the Berlinale Film Festival (2024). Curatorial projects include Magic Lantern (Providence, USA, 2005-2007), BEN RUSSELL (Chicago, USA, 2009-2011), Hallucinations (Athens, Greece, 2017) and Double Vision (Marseille, France 2024). He is currently based in Marseille, France.
