TUKULEUR
2022
short film
Tukuleur gives center stage to a character of mixed ethnicities searching for their position in western society and public space. Hair, posture and skin color shift, intersect and alternate each other, creating a choreography of looks and poses based on representations throughout art-history and pop-culture. By making the character ever changing, Tukuleur attempts to expose how our gaze influences the interpretation of different bodies in different contexts. Subsequently the film shows the consequences of these gazes and their linked representations on the personal growth and struggle of the character, who’s trying to find their place between acceptance and otherness. Rocking in between conforming and rejecting, pride and ridicule, going from one end of the spectrum to the other trying to find a pose that’s made for them, slowly breaking under its weight.
SCREENINGS TUKULEUR:
2024
Hotel Carousel, Zinnema, Brussels, Belgium
Let’s talk Leuven, M-Museum Leuven, Belgium
DOCAFRIKA, Leuven Belgium
The Constant Cinema, MHKA, Antwerp
Kunsthal Gent, Gent
2023
Brussels Short Film Festival, Brussels Belgium
Beursschouwburg, Brussels Belgium
Images Festival, Toronto Canada
Oostende Filmfestival, Oostende Belgium
Kortfilmfestival Leuven, Leuven Belgium
Afrika Filmfestival, Leuven Belgium
2022
VAF Wildcards 2022 Winner
Cinema ZED (BE, Leuven)
“Choose your own story“- Marres, Maastricht
EXHIBITED AT:
Currents #10, Marres, Maastricht, www.marres.org/programmas/currents-10/
.tiff, Fomu, Antwerp, www.fomu.be/en/exhibitions/tiff-2023-emerging-belgian-photography
Balancing Acts, Netwerk Aalst, Aalst, www.netwerkaalst.be/tentoonstelling/balancing-acts/
CAST & CREW:
Performer Stanley Ollivier
Cinematography Thomas Verijke
Assistant Camera Natalie Giakatis
Lighting Frederik StuutTuur, Oosterlynck
Assistant Director Mischa Dols
Production Manager Kato Dalle
Sound recording Lucas Gortemaker
Make-up Sara Lynn Schoon
Hair Shenna Rochas
Costume Lisa Wambacq
Set Dresser Bram De Laet & Sanae Lahlou
Set Photography Shenna Rochas & Bram De Laet
Catering Bert Enzlin
Editing Brahim Tall Mischa Dols
Sound Design David DuBois & Brahim Tall
Color Grading Mischa Dols & BrahimTall
Graphic Design Kenny Mala Ngombe
Soundtrack Yaye Daro
Music Verdi - Otello, Flying Lotus - Themes, Puccni - Madame Butterfly, Ocherstra Baobab - Cabral
Film Development Color by DeJonghe
Shot At Luca School of Arts & Zinnema
Thanks to Herman Asselberghs, Els Opsomer, Marie Umuhoza, Thomas Verijke, Mischa Dols, Kato Dalle, Ingrid Tack, Wilfried Vandenberg, Paul Tack, Kamal Tall, Youssou Tall, Stefaan Van Hyfte, Djeneba Saccoh, Peter Jan Perquy, Michel Kolenberg, Bob Vanlangendonck, Joy Maurits, Eric Cyuzuzo, Melat Gebeyaw, Ana Torfs, Sammy Ben Yakoub, Fahad Seriki, Ugo Waotzi, Yang-Bing Hong, Abel Kleinblatt, Spike Lee & Steve Mcqueen
With the support of Decoratelier & Fieldworks
