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System K
Système K​

Renaud Barrett  •   France  • ​  2018
94 mins  •  HD   •   M animal cruelty & content that may disturb
​
 ​In French with English subtitles

A lively, endlessly fascinating documentary about the incredible art world stirring in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

“A full-blown nosedive into a unique moment of collective creation” – Hollywood Reporter
​
DIRECTOR/SCREENPLAY/PHOTOGRAPHY: Renaud Barret
PRODUCERS: Renaud Barret, Thierry Commissionat, François de Carsalade du Pont, Benoît Tschieret, Guillaume Vincent
PRODUCTION CO: Les Films en Vrac, Belle Kinoise

EDITOR: Jules Lahana
MUSIC: Kokoko
WITH: Béni Baras, Géraldine Tobe, Freddy Tsimba

FESTIVALS: Berlin

REVIEWS

“A lively, cogent, unsettling documentary about the incredible art world roiling in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo… Renaud Barret, situates his film in the here and now that presents itself to his camera – the movie doesn’t delve into the root causes of the poverty and oppression that make the country a pressure cooker. Instead, he follows the artists who have no choice but to live in it. ‘Our work feeds on chaos,’ says Freddy Tsimba, a sculptor who assembles his work out of bottle caps, trash, machetes, and pretty much everything and anything he can amass in large quantities.

No lofts or studios for the multidisciplinary creators depicted here. They make their works in spaces that are at least semi-exposed. In some cases, as in that of Kongo Astronaut, a performance artist who walks Kinshasa’s streets in a makeshift spacesuit, they are the work… Barret makes the viewer understand, implicitly at least, the desperation of these creators, even as views of their work, and the simmering electronic Afro-funk of the soundtrack, make a case for the indomitability of their creative impulse.”

​— Glenn Kenny, NY Times




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