MAJJUDO (LOST MAN)

Someone who leaves the dying fire without his torchlight is a lost man. According to the filmmakers, ’Majjudo’ is ’’sensorially drifting in a French-Senegalese experience of Shadow Cinema’’. While light is mainly provided by torchlights, creating a cinema-driven shadowplay, people are dancing and playing music during the night. During the daytime, one is riding a bike. The camera travels, reminding us that cinema embodies movement. Image and sound are given the same attention in this film, the whole becoming a sensorial experience of moving light, shades, colours, nature, and music. Nightly projections of archival film material on local history are visually confronted with views of the actual landscape.
Majjudo (Lost Man), Laurent Van Lancker, 2009 © the artist & producersMajjudo (Lost Man), Laurent Van Lancker, 2009 © the artist & producersMajjudo (Lost Man), Laurent Van Lancker, 2009 © the artist & producers  
  • Format DIGITAL FILE(DIGITAL FILE)
  • Color system PAL
  • Color col. and b&w
  • Year 2009
  • Duration 00:31:00
  • Languageinfo
    Subtitled running text/titles: English UK, French
  • Artists