Rising Up at Night wrests from Kinshasa’s endless nocturnal visions, fragments, faces gleaming in flashes of torchlight, while feet, knees and hips wade through ochre-coloured waters. In the suburbs, Dantesque flooding has dealt a death blow to the precarious electricity system, while voice-over news reports describe the fiasco of a colossal Hispano-Chinese project for a dam that will supposedly supply power to 80 million Congolese. Nelson Makengo lets his photographer’s eye wander over what scant light survives, given off by trinkets made in China, huckster Father Christmases, pairs of angry eyes and trance-inducing religious prayers. He anchors his film in the tradition of the urban symphony, but at the level of the canoes circulating along drowned streets in the ink-black night and the River Congo’s muddy waters. AR
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Rising Up at Night
(Tongo Saa)
- Congo, Democratic Republic of
- Belgium
- Germany
- Burkina Faso
- 2024
- Documentaire
- Couleur
- 96′
- Lingala
- Titre français
Rising Up at Night - Original title
Tongo Saa - Titre international
Rising Up at Night - Scénario
Nelson MAKENGO - Photo
Nelson MAKENGO - Montage
Inneke VAN WAEYENBERGHE - Son
Franck MOKA, Moimi WEZAM, Laszlo UMBREIT, Rémi GERARD - Musique
Bao SISSOKO, Wouter VANDENABEELE - Production
Mutotu Productions, Twenty Nine Studio & Production - Ventes internationales
Square Eyes : info@squareeyesfilm.com - Support de projection
DCP - Sous-titrage
VOSTF, VOST électronique