Un Âne
2023, video and 16mm transferred to video, 12’33”, color, stereo, French with English subtitles
Un Âne – ‘a donkey’ in French – follows the route laid out by Chantal Akerman’s shooting in Al-Naqab desert in her last film No Home Movie (2015).
The artists, following Akerman’s footsteps, decide to turn the camera where Akerman didn’t and pronounce the name of this particular desert in its Arabic name. By this simple gesture, Un Âne frames this location including its geopolitical history, and actuality, where evidence of colonial practices of segregation and deprivation of the Bedouin community is present and practiced.
Rebab Yusef Dahabsha
Sound mix Laszlo Umbreit
Color grading Miléna Trivier
Un Âne was commissioned by Contour Biennale 2023 and was made in the framework of yours, a collective project by Eva Giolo, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Katja Mater, Maaike Neuville, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat
The collective process was moderated by Fairuz Ghammam
Producer Andrea Cinel
Produced by Kunstencentrum Nona, Mechelen, in the context of the 10th Contour Biennial of Moving Images, curated by Auguste Orts
Supported by Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF), KAAP, argos centre for audiovisual arts, Messidor, elephy, and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgium
Un Âne is part of Là