The Gallop

Name: The Gallop
Director: Eléonore Yameogo
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-03-01

2023 · 96 min · Documentary

Between Ouagadougou, Niamey, Kigali and Dakar, Éléonore Yameogo follows four African directors competing at the 2021 Ouagadougou International Film and Television Festival (FESPACO). The pressure's on, but does being in competition mean having to win?

Directed by Eléonore Yameogo · Written by Eléonore Yameogo

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For Prism, Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels-based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris-based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to work together on a film in which the differences in their skin color serves as a departure to explore their experiences with the biased limitations of the medium. Photographic media are technologically and ideologically biased, favoring Caucasian skin. Such white-centricity means that the photographic media assume, privilege and construct whiteness.

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