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Archive: Year 2023

Edition XXII

LOGICAL REVOLTS: THE WORKS OF LOUIS HENDERSON

Black Code/Code Noir

Director

Louis Henderson

Producer

Olivier Marboeuf

Cinematographer

Louis Henderson

Editor

Louis Henderson

Sound

Joseph Munday

Simon Apostolou

Website

Website

Contact

SPECTRE PRODUCTIONS
11 allée Maurice Ravel
35 000 Rennes
[email protected]

Black Code/Code Noir Black Code/Code Noir Black Code/Code Noir Black Code/Code Noir

2015

France

21 min

Color, Black & White

Black Code/Code Noir unites temporally and geographically disparate elements into a critical reflection on two recent events: the murder of Michael Brown and that of Kajieme Powell by American police officers in 2014. Archaeologically, the film argues that behind this current situation is a sedimented history of slavery, preserved by the Black Code laws of the colonies in the early Americas. These codes have transformed into the algorithms that configure police Big Data and the necropolitical control of African-Americans today. Through a historical détournement, the film suggests the Haitian Revolution as the first instance of a hacking of the Black Code and, perhaps, a symbol for future hope.
Director
Louis Henderson is a filmmaker and writer who experiments with different ways of working with people to address and question our current global condition defined by racial capitalism and the ever-present histories of the European colonial project. Henderson's films and installations are shown regularly in various international film festivals, art museums and biennials. He lives and works in Paris and Berlin.

Showtimes

DOKUKINO

9 Aug @ 15:00

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KINO KLUBI

12 Aug @ 10:30

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Logical Revolts 45'

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