DARK CONTINENT
Art Film by Dani Gal
D 2023 | 25 min | DCP | 5.1 | English with German subtitles
with Yoli Fuller, Maj-Britt Klenke, J.David Hinze, Patrick Joswig
World Premiere: steirischer herbst ‘23
Director of Photography: Itay Marom
Music: Tyshawn Sorey
Animation: Markus Müller
Sound Recordist: Manja Ebert
Costume & Set Design: Daniela Zorrozoua
Make-Up & Hair: Rama Al Rached
Gaffer: Theo Lustig, Golo Jahn
Sound Design & Mix: Jochen Jezussek
Colour Grading: Abdulmonim Twebti
Produced by Kirberg Motors & Dani Gal
Co-Produced & Commissioned by: steirischer herbst
Funded by BKM, Artis
Synopsis
Dani Gal’s new mini feature deals with the racial phobias resulting from the colonial imaginary and their transmission through music. His film reenacts a case study from Martinican psychiatrist and anti-colonial writer Frantz Fanonʼs book Black Skin, White Masks (1952): a young White French woman suffers from a nervous disorder triggered by the sound of African drums—prohibited by colonial regimes in Africa because they were suspected of carrying signals of rebellion.
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