NELSON MAKENGO (Democratic Republic of Congo, 1990) is a filmmaker and photographer. He graduated in visual communication from Académie de Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa (2015) and in documentary film from École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de Métier de L’Image et du Son, Paris (2016). His work focuses on Congo’s history and society, from the colonial past to the present. His films have been screened at festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand (2018), São Paulo (2018), Saint Louis (2017) and the Afrika Film Festival (2018), among others. He took part in the Lyon (2017) and Lubumbashi (2018) biennials.
E'VILLE (2018). Visiting the ruins of an abandoned sports complex, the camera finds vestiges of the recent struggle for the independence of the Congo. From the scene of desolation emerges a ghostly voice over that reads a letter written by Patrice Lumumba to his wife Pauline. Leader of the resistance against the exceptionally cruel Belgian colonial forces that dominated the country, the politician, after being chosen prime minister in free elections, was deposed, persecuted and murdered by opponents backed by the US and Belgium.
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