Competitionfilms a-z

Prince

D, ED, CI: Wojtek Doroszuk
COD 2014, OS, 20‘

 

Leather loafers, white socks, glittering polyester suit and a relaxed walk: The crowd are surprised and join in – as if in a music video by the King of Pop. Every day Prince Ntsiete transforms himself into his idol Michael Jackson and puts on his performance as he walks through Brazzaville. We follow him from his home in the slums through residential areas, markets and busy main roads down to the riverside. The finale: a dance show to the music of freedom fighter Franklin Bukaka. A visual and auditory adventure with an everyday urban prince.

Wojtek Doroszuk is a video artist based in Krakow, Poland and Rouen, France. He graduated from the Faculty of Painting of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. His works have been shown in many places, including Warsaw, New York, San Francisco, Oslo and Paris. In 2009 he was awarded the Deutsche Bank Art Prize Public Award; in 2013 he gained an Honorable Mention at the 15th Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland.

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