Author name: Noelle Bezzi

In Benin, the water people, who once fought against colonisation, are now facing water hyacinth, a colonising plant that reproduces at breakneck speed, suffocating the lake. Realism and imagination intertwine, […]

Walt Disney’s film “The Jungle Book” (1967) and the 1894 book by Rudyard Kipling on which it is based are emblematic of Western imperialism, not only othering nature and animals,

“Ombazu yaKouHerero yazikama okuza kororowa.” A studio in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Simon Tjimbawe has chosen this location to answer questions sent by a museum in Braunschweig. The museum is exhibiting Chief Kahimemua’s

Filmed in Moscow twenty years after Akerman’s “D’Est” and over ten years ago, “Colder” addresses the deep conundrums of memory, place, and time. A camera locks on to past glories,

“Hippos”(“Qalâat Al-Husan”) was filmed in Hippos on the shortest day of the year. Hippos, a historical basalt stone built city, is currently an archeological site located between Syria and Israel.

The camera’s eye returns obsessively to the same places, a vertical perspective that imposes control, the possession of archaeological sites, stones lying for thousands years in the desert. The places

Between 9 May and 11 June 1943, the island of Pantelleria was violently bombarded by the Allied troops in the first operation to reconquer Italian soil. Residents recall that, after

Around 1920, a wealthy man from northern Italy returns from the First World War. Without having actively fought, neither having seen the blood of battle or an actual trench, he

“The Battle Over Mazepa” conceptualises the historical significance and contemporary perception of Ivan Mazeppa, a political and military leader of the Zaporizhian Sich and Left-bank Ukraine in the late-17th and

“Civilians. Invasion”, created in 2023, documents the experiences of Ukrainians during the Russian aggression against Ukraine. This invasion led to extensive documentation by civilians, soldiers, and journalists, resulting in a