Short Program 2: Colonialism Reframed

'Regard' - Watch Here

Director: Maisha Maene

Experimental, 2019, 4 Min.

Time: October 16th - 31st

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Using his trademark assemblage of esoteric costume and visual metaphors, Congolese-Belgian hitmaker and filmmaker Baloji explores the practice of skin lightening in black communities. Euphemistically described as ‘brightening’ or ‘toning’, skin bleaching takes many innocuous forms—such as creams, buffs and soaps—to deal with hyperpigmentation, but is more often used by women to emulate Eurocentric beauty standards.