Drowned in Oblivion (0+)
Belgium, 2007, b/w, 71 min.
Director: Pierre-Yves Vanderweerd
Director: Pierre-Yves Vanderweerd
Le cercle des noyes (the drowned men) is the name given in Mauritania to black political prisoners imprisonned from 1987 in the old colonial fortress of Oualata. This film touches on the fragile process of unveiling memories by one of these former prisoners who remembers his story and that of his companions. In a visual echo, the places of their confinement come one after another denuded from any traces of that past.
Pierre-Yves Vanderweerd
Pierre-Yves Vanderweerd
studied in University of Brussels, department of philosophy and philology. Since 2003 he has held courses in Media Center in Senegal and in National Institute of Arts in Dakar. Since 1998 he was program director of VIII, IX, X and XI film festival «Filmer à tout Prix».
FILMOGRAPHY
«AIDS Here And There», 1998; «Nemadis, Years Without News», 2000; «Deep Roots», 2002; «Closed district», 2004; «Drowned in Oblivion», 2007.
Belgium, 2007, b/w, 71 min.
Director: Pierre-Yves Vanderweerd
Director: Pierre-Yves Vanderweerd
Le cercle des noyes (the drowned men) is the name given in Mauritania to black political prisoners imprisonned from 1987 in the old colonial fortress of Oualata. This film touches on the fragile process of unveiling memories by one of these former prisoners who remembers his story and that of his companions. In a visual echo, the places of their confinement come one after another denuded from any traces of that past.