Prism (2021)

Name: Prism
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-08-25T19:40:06+02:00

Documentary | 78 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 78 minuten

Country: Belgium

Directed by: Eléonore Yameogo, An van. Dienderen and Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam

Stars: Sylvestre Amoussou, David Fricker and Tella Kpomahou

IMDb score: 6,5 (23)

Releasedate: 26 September 2021

This movie is not available on US streaming services.

Prism plot

One of the many ways in which racism has been enshrined in film culture is technical in nature: the light for film cameras has always been calibrated for white skin, and other production tools throughout film history also exhibit this bias. In this documentary, three filmmakers collectively explore the literal, theoretical and philosophical dimensions of that reality. In a series of thematically linked discussions and interrogations, Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso, the Belgian An van. Dienderen and Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon making their own movie map.