VISIO Production Fund 2024/2025
Abdessamad El Montassir
Peng Zuqiang
Âabide l'kadia
by Abdessamad El Montassir
co-produced with Frac Bretagne
The film invites us to pay attention to the stories of Haratins, enslaved people, and freed slaves in Mauritania. The film proposes a dive into spaces of resistance carved out by these communities, thanks to a rhizomatic story that connects the testimonies, Haratin songs, language as a tool of domination, and wigs as a form of cartography—all bound together by the myth of a shell. The project reflects on situations of domination, where new models make up spaces of emancipation in constant reinvention. In this dimension, walking and singing become acts of struggle and resistance that subvert the imposed order to create spaces for Haratins to reclaim their rights, their identities, and their stolen histories.
Dreams of Prophets
by Gala Hernández López
co-produced with Fondazione In Between Art Film
What does sleep see when it looks back at us? Dreams of Prophets unravels the silent architecture of the unconscious, mapped, extracted and governed. A meditation on the evolving nature of dreams in neurocapitalism, the film weaves together spectral visions, fragmented reveries and machinic hallucinations that questions the fate of the engineered dreamscape in an era of total capture.
Afternoon histories
by Peng Zuqiang
co-produced with Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci
8.75mm film – a celluloid format unique to China and never circulated elsewhere, was a film format where no camera was made for. This print film format was primarily used for mobile projection units to exhibit films in countryside, mountains, islands and ethnic minority regions in China from the 60s to 80s. Working through the question: ‘What is a film without a camera?,’ the project attempts to reimagine this medium of propaganda as a medium for remembering, resilience and other mystifications.