AFRICA IS THE FUTURE (Nicolas Premier) + Q&A

31-minute ritual film by Franco-Congolese artist Nicolas Premier

A/VSound art

A four-part film built from original footage, internet sources, and archival images, with the Kongo cosmogram as its structural guide. It moves like a collage essay: voice, image, and symbol doing the heavy lifting rather than plot.

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Nicolas Premier is a Franco-Congolese artist whose long-running Africa Is The Future project maps Black Atlantic and Afro-diasporic histories through moving image and archival reassembly. The work has been developed over more than twenty years and sits in the lane of essay film, visual culture, and postcolonial image-making, with this screening followed by a Q&A.

Playing

2026-11-06 2026-11-06T12:30:00 · AFRICA IS THE FUTURE (Nicolas Premier) + Q&A · Slachtstraat Filmtheater

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