Spectres

Original Title: Spectres

Documentary | 104' | 2011 (Completed)

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Director:	Sven Augustijnen
Producer:	Marie Logie
Writer:	Sven Augustijnen

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Fifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, is back to haunt Belgium.

synopsis

Fifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, is back to haunt Belgium. Through commemorations, lectures and a return visit, a top-ranking Belgian civil servant who was in Elisabethville on that bloody day of January 17, 1961, attempts to conjure the spectres of the past. To the sound of Bach's St John Passion, Spectres plunges us into one of the blackest days of the Belgian Congo's decolonisation.
Cinquante ans après son assassinat, Patrice Lumumba, le Premier Ministre du Congo indépendant, est de retour pour hanter la Belgique. A travers des commémorations, des conférences et un voyage de retour, un fonctionnaire belge haut-placé qui était à Elisabethville le jour sanglant du 17 janvier 1961, tente de conjurer les spectres du passé. Au son de St John Passion de J.S. Bach, les esprits nous font revivre le jour le plus noir de la décolonisation belge du Congo. Une analyse de l’appareil biopolitique ainsi qu’une enquête historique, ce film de long métrage expose la frontière étroite qui sépare la légitimation et l’historiographie.

Credits

Director
Sven Augustijnen
Producer
Marie Logie
Writer
Sven Augustijnen
Editing
Sven Augustijnen, Mathieu Haessler
Photography
Sven Augustijnen
Sound
Benoît Bruwier
Music
J.S. Bach

Format

Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Doc
Production share
Majority Flemish Production
Belgium
Genre
Documentary
Year of production

2011
Production status
Completed
Original title
Spectres
Original language
French

Technical specs

Running time
104'
Aspect ratio
16:9
Colour
Colour

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1080 Brussel
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Partners

Supported by

the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), CERA Partners in Art, Mu.ZEE, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg, Wiels contemporary art centre, Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren, de Appel arts centre, Marres, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Kunsthalle Bern, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Kunstencentrum BUDA, FLACC Workplace for Visual Arts, FRAC Bourgogne, Le Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains