Villa Madjo

Her white-skinned father was born in Africa, and her black-skinned moth­er was born in Europe. A com­plex sto­ry of her fam­i­ly, colo­nial­ism and the inter­ra­cial couple. 

SYNOPSIS

Starting from the observation that her father -who is white- was born in Africa, andthat her mother -who is black- was born in Europe, the director reveals the complex history of her family, from colonialism to their experience of the interracial couple in Europe in the 1950's and 70's.

Theme(s) : , Colonialism, Identity, Racism

DIRECTOR

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Elen Sylla Grollimund

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Elen Syl­la Grol­limund is a pho­tog­ra­ph­er, video mak­er and ani­ma­tor based in Brus­sels. She
stud­ied pho­tog­ra­phy at LABA in Bres­cia (Italy) and then worked in Paris as a pho­tog­ra­ph­er and
video­mak­er with sev­er­al music artists. After mov­ing to Brus­sels, in 2019 she joined the
col­lec­tive Ate­lier Graphoui, where she leads exper­i­men­tal and ani­ma­tion work­shops and
directs col­lec­tive films like “Mou­ve­ment d’i­den­tité” (2019), “Et la lumière fût et autres
illu­mi­na­tions” (2019), “Ceci n’est pas une fic­tion” (2019), “Le Fil(M)agique” (2019), “7 jours sur
7” ( Tri­en­nale de Lou­vain La Neuve, 2021). Vil­la Mad­jo is her first short documentary.

CREDITS

Director | , Elen Sylla Grollimund
Year | , 2023
Country | , Belgium
Duration | 13 minutes
Original language | , French
Subtitles | , English
Formats |
Sound | Thomas Ferrando
Editing | Sébastien Demeffe
Animation | Elen Sylla Grollimund

CAREER

Festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand • Festival de Cine Africano de Tarifa Tanger • Festival international du film documentaire et du court métrage de Bilbao

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