as performer

TUKULEUR (2022)

Brahim Tall

Synopsis:
Tukuleur gives center stage to a character of mixed ethnicities searching for their position in western society and public space. Hair, posture and skin color shift, intersect and alternate each other, creating a choreography of looks and poses based on representations throughout art-history and pop-culture. By making the character ever changing, Tukuleur attempts to expose how our gaze influences the interpretation of different bodies in different contexts. Subsequently the film shows the consequences of these gazes and their linked representations on the personal growth and struggle of the character, who’s trying to find their place between acceptance and otherness. Rocking in between conforming and rejecting, pride and ridicule, going from one end of the spectrum to the other trying to find a pose that’s made for them, slowly breaking under its weight.

CAST AND CREW

Performer Stanley Ollivier
Cinematography Thomas Verijke
Assistant Camera Natalie Giakatis
Lighting Frederik StuutTuur, Oosterlynck
Assistant Director Mischa Dols
Production Manager Kato Dalle
Sound recording Lucas Gortemaker
Make-up Sara Lynn Schoon
Hair Shenna Rochas
Costume Lisa Wambacq
Set Dresser Bram De Laet & Sanae Lahlou

Set Photography Shenna Rochas & Bram De Laet
Catering Bert Enzlin
Editing Brahim Tall, Mischa Dols
Sound Design David DuBois, Brahim Tall
Color Grading Mischa Dols, BrahimTall
Graphic Design Kenny Mala Ngombe
Soundtrack Yaye Daro
Music Verdi - Otello, Flying Lotus - Themes, Puccni - Madame Butterfly, Ocherstra Baobab - Cabral
Film Development Color by DeJonghe
Shot At Luca School of Arts & Zinnema

Thanks to Herman Asselberghs Els Opsomer Marie Umuhoza Thomas Verijke Mischa Dols Kato Dalle Ingrid Tack Wilfried Vandenberg Paul Tack Kamal Tall Youssou Tall Stefaan Van Hyfte Djeneba Saccoh Peter Jan Perquy Michel Kolenberg Bob Vanlangendonck Joy MauritsEric Cyuzuzo Melat Gebeyaw Ana TorfsSammy Ben Yakoub Fahad Seriki Ugo Waotzi Yang-Bing Hong Abel Kleinblatt Spike Lee Steve Mcqueen

With the support of Decoratelier & Fieldworks

TOUR DATES:

Exhibited at:
Currents #10, Marres, Maastricht, www.marres.org/programmas/currents-10/
.tiff, Fomu, Antwerp, www.fomu.be/en/exhibitions/tiff-2023-emerging-belgian-photography

2024
DOCAFRIKA, Leuven Belgium (upcoming)

2023
Brussels Short Film Festival, Brussels Belgium
Beursschouwburg, Brussels Belgium
Images Festival, Toronto Canada
Oostende Filmfestival, Oostende Belgium
Kortfilmfestival Leuven, Leuven Belgium
Afrika Filmfestival, Leuven Belgium

2022
Cinema ZED (BE, Leuven)
“Choose your own story“- Marres, Maastricht

VAF Wildcards 2022 Winner