BLACK BEAUTY
BLACK BEAUTY


UNITED KINGDOM, BELGIUM, SPAIN | 2021 | DCP | B&W/ COLOUR | ENGLISH | 29 | GRACE NDIRITU

Director / Director: Grace Ndiritu

Guión / Screenplay: Grace Ndiritu

Productor / Producer: Julieta Juncadella, Grace Ndiritu

Fotografía / Cinematography: Pablo Paloma

Edición / Editing: Jos Mara Avils

Sonido / Sound: Martin Gabriel Scaglia

Compañía Productora / Production Company: Una Presencia, Post-Hippie Productions

Reparto / Cast: Aida Welle, Aida Welle, Emilio Linder , Lucas Azpurgua, Emile Massieu Yanes, Nicols Celda Laurent-Atthalin, Andrea Celda Laurent-Atthalin, Marielena Correa Alcal


Sinopsis / Synopsis:

Directorial debut by visual artist Grace Ndiritu. African fashion model Alexandra Cartier meets Jorge Luis Borges in a visionary hallucination. What does the famous Argentine modernist writer have to say about our contemporary ecological and pandemic problems?

Biografía / Biography:

Grace Ndiritu, her archive of over forty 'Hand-crafted videos' and 'Video Paintings' have been widely exhibited. Upcoming solo performances Musee Chasse & Nature and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2013). Recent solo exhibitions and screenings at ICA Artist Film Survey, London (2011), Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema London (2009), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2007), the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2005). Group shows include those at the Bamako Biennale (2011), Dakar Biennale and International Center of Photography, New York (2009). She won the 1st Prize for Landscape Video and Photography, at the Centre for Art and Nature, Spain (2010). Her work is also housed in museum collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Ulrich Museum, Kansas and private collections such as the Walther Collection, New York and Germany.

Festivales / Festivals:

Berlinale, Berlin International Film Festival - 2022, Germany
Marseille International Documentary Festival - 2022, France

Contacto / Contact:

LUX Distribution
Alice Lea alice@lux.org.uk