THE PORTERS

2022 | 35 min | VOSTA

Country of origin of director : Belgium
Country of production : Belgium
Country of recording : Belgium

SYNOPSIS :

I’m going on a trip and I’m taking with me: an elephant bone to stir up food, a feather to catch winged termites, eight butterflies, a rope made of fragrant roots… and 150 meters of exposed but undeveloped film for the Ministry of Colonies.

Special mention at IDFA Amsterdam (2022) and selection at the Festival En Ville! in Brussels (2023).

BIOGRAPHY : 

For more than ten years, Sarah Vanagt has been making documentaries, video installations and photographs in which she intertwines her interest in history and the origins of cinema. Her films question memory, traces, and survival by privileging the gaze of childhood.