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In collaboration with Art Souterrain Festival, FIFA is proud to present multidisciplinary artist Kitoko Diva’s film [The Black Man in the Cosmos].
[The Black Man in the Cosmos] is a multi-medium series revisiting Space Is the Place, the 85-minute science fiction film, released in 1974, directed by John Coney, written by Sun Ra and Joshua Smith. Kitoko Diva is a French artist exploring interactions of identity and race social structure with surrealism, technoculture, dream-like symbolism and cyberspaces utopies. Kitoko Diva mostly address afrodiasporic experiences among black europeans and afro-american southern communities by building alternatives landscapes and substitutes realities with new experimental forms of documentary practices blurring the line between fiction, facts and poetry.
Sun Ra lands on a new planet in space to seek refuge for the emancipation of the black man. An interstellar journey addressing the question of the identity crisis among European Afro-descendants.
[The Black Man in the Cosmos] is a multi-medium series revisiting Space Is the Place, the 85-minute science fiction film, released in 1974, directed by John Coney, written by Sun Ra and Joshua Smith. Kitoko Diva is a French artist exploring interactions of identity and race social structure with surrealism, technoculture, dream-like symbolism and cyberspaces utopies. Kitoko Diva mostly address afrodiasporic experiences among black europeans and afro-american southern communities by building alternatives landscapes and substitutes realities with new experimental forms of documentary practices blurring the line between fiction, facts and poetry.
Sun Ra lands on a new planet in space to seek refuge for the emancipation of the black man. An interstellar journey addressing the question of the identity crisis among European Afro-descendants.
| Director | Kitoko Diva |
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Kitoko Diva
Kitoko Diva’s hybrid practice between moving images, installations and sound create absorbing performance and immersive video installations interacting with identity, heritage and race through a surrealism lens. Her work challenges contemporary socio-political economic issues by building alternatives landscapes and substitutes realities with new forms of cinematography. She creates series of socially engaged, inclusive cinematic shots with dream-like symbolism traversing space and time to redefine what you think you know about yourself, the world and your history.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
