2019 feature documentary about the deficiency of electricity in the villages of the Congo. The symbolic power and dangers at night. The light religiously and physically transfers power to seers, or for the activist in the street politically. Inspiring hope in children of Kinshasa, Congo appears with bright lights and playfully suited in a Santa Claus costume. Believers pray to God, given the message from the priest is not to give up, and suicide is only a dream because of these terrible conditions. We are guided by light, into the flooded streets by a romantic notion of a dirty Venetian paradise.
A film by Nelson Makengo
