What did you achieve during this creative residency? What is the result (created work)? Who was involved in the creation process?
We were able to do a few additional shoots to enrich what we had from the start: a few recordings. Then we did all the post-production work.
At this stage, we have a work that satisfies us well, that conveys what we wanted and that reflects our feelings and our thoughts in the face of all this.
This process involved, in addition to myself, an author from Lubumbashi who revisited certain texts (Dorine Mokha); a team of 3 young people in training at Kabako/Kisangani Studios including: a production assistant (Chimène Baofa), a cameraman (Antoine Mawazo), an editor (Dorcas Mulamba); Jeef Mongema, Nipcian Nkolobise and Gaylor Mosi who are the people who lived the experience with me and who share their testimonies in the video.
How do you think these activities contribute to a reflection on today’s world, in relation to the COVID-19 crisis, and/or on the shaping of the future?
Already the fact of being in the narrative or in the testimony of lived things puts a basis for reflection on a vision that one can have of the world in a general way. By bringing people together to develop work, the creative space necessarily becomes a framework where a new way of exchanging on how we project ourselves each day towards tomorrow comes to life.
How did you feel during the residency? And at the end of it?
This residency was a moment of questioning about what I really wanted to share as a reflection through this work. For there were moments of doubt about the choice (declaration of love) in relation to other revelations that I discovered in discussions with the characters. There was this strong desire to react rather violently. But in the end it passed me by, we stuck to the initial intention.
Our work is not necessarily as we had imagined it. But we are satisfied with it, we are very happy with what we ended up with.
We knew much more power cuts than before, we were struck by malaria for a while.
