Machini
21,00€
Description
In Lubumbashi, the daily lives of the inhabitants are turned upside down by a predicted environmental disaster. Machini (2019), an animated short, masterfully uses the stop-motion technique and raw materials such as pebbles, chalk and rusty objects to denounce pollution and the exploitation of human and natural resources. The Democratic Republic of Congo, which holds the world's largest reserves of lithium and cobalt, is the backdrop for a critical journey that reveals the fatal connections of the global economy.
Franck Mukunday and Tétshim worked together for four years on this short film about the environmental and health damage caused by mining in their country. Tétshim's family lives in a neighbourhood riddled with acid, while Franck Mukunday grew up near the waste dumps of Gécamines, the company that has run the mines since colonial times.
PRESENTATION OF THE AUTHORS
Franck Mukunday was born in 1983 in Lubumbashi, where he lives and works. After training in communications at the Institut supérieur interdiocésain Monseigneur Mulolwa, he branched out into animation. In 2007, he collaborated with Tétshim, Angelo Nzeka and Trésor Makonga, with whom he created the short film 2D Mamiwata. In 2010, he co-founded the Crayon du cuivre studio in Lubumbashi with Tétshim.
Tezhim was born in 1980 in Kinshasa and grew up in Lubumbashi, where he lives and works as a cartoonist and press artist, as well as an illustrator. After studying Latin and Philosophy in the Humanities and Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Lubumbashi, he began his career as an illustrator, cartoonist and comic strip writer in 1998.
BUY THE COMICS
Price : 20€
To buy the comic book: africalia@africalia.be
TECHNICAL DATA
The edition is available in three languages (French, Dutch and English)
Publisher: Africalia asbl in collaboration with Twenty nine studio & Production, The 5th layer | 5c
Legal deposit: d-20229500-3
ISBN : 978-2-39008-056-5
-Comic format
- Hardcover
- Colour printing
- Number of pages: 70
Additional information
| Weight | 780 g |
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