"Stop Filming Us but Listen", Filmvorführung in Anwesenheit der Regisseurin Bernadette Vivuya

A film as a response, extension and contextualization of another film: In 2020, Dutch director Joris Postema made a documentary - "Stop Filming Us" - about the cultural scene in the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. When he encounters resistance from the local people, it becomes a film about the question of who films whom and for what purpose.
The journalist and filmmaker Bernadette Vivuya appropriates the material from this film in order to place it together with Kagoma Ya Twahirwa in the wider context of colonial images and history, neo-colonial politics and post-colonial practices on site: In the vicinity of the local cultural association Yolé!, she observes the confrontation of young men and women with the propaganda images of the former Belgian colonial power, talks to artists about their practices and how they relate to common Western images of life in African countries, discusses the continuation of colonial structures in development aid and questions the problems of Western funding for African art. The call to Western filmmakers to refrain from reproducing the same old view is thus supplemented by a self-conscious offer to listen and learn from it.

"Stop Filming Us but Listen" (2022, CD/NL, 72 min., OmeU) is a film that constantly questions and reflects on its own production conditions. In its form, it seems like a contemporary extension of the documentary mode that Jean Rouch called Cinéma Vérité - a director who was accused by Ousmane Sembène in 1965 of looking at people in his ethnographic films as if they were insects.

The director and producer Ganza Buroko will attend the screening and then discuss the issues raised by the film in greater depth with Alejandro Bachmann, Professor of Film History and Film Theory at the KHM, and the audience.