Draft:Under the White Mask: the film Haesaerts could have made

"Under the White Mask: the film Haesaerts could have made" is a short film directed by Matthias De Groof. It uses excerpts from "Under the Black Mask", a 1958 film about Congolese art directed by Belgian artist Paul Haesaerts and qualified as colonial propaganda. This new work imagines what the masks would have said.

Plot
"Under the White Mask" is a short film that uses excerpts from "Under The Black Mask", a 1958 film about Congolese art, directed by Belgian artist Paul Haesaerts and considered colonial propaganda. This new film imagines what the masks, now subjects and no longer objects, would say. "Under the White Mask" limits itself to elements that already existed in 1958.

Production
The film was produced by Cobra films with help from the Museum aan de Stroom. The masks used in the film are from the Museum aan de Stroom. In addition, Aimé Césaire's book "Discourse on Colonialism" is discussed in Lingala.

Trivia
The film can be seen on the New York Times series called Op-Docs.