Sojourn
Directed by Lena Nerinckx, Film
01–11–2021
— Semi-Finalist Montréal Independent Film Festival
— Official Selection Prague International Indie Film Festival
— Official Selection Berlin Indie Film Festival
— Honorable Mention 2022 ARFF Amsterdam//
International Awards
Sojourn tells the story of falling in and out of love with a narcissist in an unraveling performance characterized by intense movement and soft-spoken dialogue.
— Official Selection Prague International Indie Film Festival
— Official Selection Berlin Indie Film Festival
— Honorable Mention 2022 ARFF Amsterdam//
International Awards
Sojourn tells the story of falling in and out of love with a narcissist in an unraveling performance characterized by intense movement and soft-spoken dialogue.
Oriana Ikomo - You
Directed by Lena Nerinckx, Music Video
16-04-2021
Oriana Ikomo shares her debut single "You",
a delicately haunting vocal track written above love and self-acceptance.
Alienation, especially in these times, is something that is becoming more and more common. In the video, the dancers represent that feeling.
The alienation is in their eyes, which are extinguished. You is not a song about heartbreak. It is about the phase after the sadness and the anger. The phase where you begin to quietly regain hope that you can find the connections you once lost with others.
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a delicately haunting vocal track written above love and self-acceptance.
Alienation, especially in these times, is something that is becoming more and more common. In the video, the dancers represent that feeling.
The alienation is in their eyes, which are extinguished. You is not a song about heartbreak. It is about the phase after the sadness and the anger. The phase where you begin to quietly regain hope that you can find the connections you once lost with others.
Watch full video on NOWNESS
Graphic designs for visual artist Baloji who explores the phenomenon of skin bleaching in Define Beauty: Never Look At the Sun, opening up the skin bleaching debate in this visual ode to black beauty.
“Using his trademark assemblage of esoteric costume and visual metaphors, Congolese-Belgian hitmaker and filmmaker Baloji explores the practice of skin lightening in black communities. Euphemistically described as ‘brightening’ or ‘toning’, skin bleaching takes many innocuous forms—such as creams, buffs and soaps—to deal with hyperpigmentation, but is more often used by women to emulate Eurocentric beauty standards.”
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“Using his trademark assemblage of esoteric costume and visual metaphors, Congolese-Belgian hitmaker and filmmaker Baloji explores the practice of skin lightening in black communities. Euphemistically described as ‘brightening’ or ‘toning’, skin bleaching takes many innocuous forms—such as creams, buffs and soaps—to deal with hyperpigmentation, but is more often used by women to emulate Eurocentric beauty standards.”
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While “Alors On Danse” was about the dangers of nightlife, “Papaoutai” (which isn’t a real word but a malapropism of Papa où t'es) seems to be inspired by a particular line from “Alors On Danse”:
“Who says loved ones says mourning”
Stromae reveals his relationship with his late father, or rather lack thereof. Stromae later revealed that his dad, who was Rwandan, was killed in the 1994 Rwandan genocide when Stromae was a little kid. Stromae’s father’s absence was the inspiration for writing this song, which is about the struggles of growing up without a father figure.
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“Who says loved ones says mourning”
Stromae reveals his relationship with his late father, or rather lack thereof. Stromae later revealed that his dad, who was Rwandan, was killed in the 1994 Rwandan genocide when Stromae was a little kid. Stromae’s father’s absence was the inspiration for writing this song, which is about the struggles of growing up without a father figure.
Watch full video on YouTube