"Ka-pi-ta"is the official job title given to Congolese charged with enforcing their white master's bidding-through domination-over their fellow Congolese on plantations, in factories, in commerce, and other sites of capitalist extraction and production.
From one perspective, this history of exploitation in Congo is well documented from the colonial era to the present. There are a wealth of images of the copper and cobalt mines that fueled the industrial revolution, of the coltan and niobium mines that fuel the electronic revolution. But even in their efforts to reveal violence, such images often render the engines of exploitation invisible. By recoding archival footage and intertwining it with contemporary images, Kapita exposes patterns of extraction and burial to decode colonial representations-and exploitation-of central African land and people and mines the archival films for what they make invisible: the black-skinned workers evaporated by cameras calibrated to white, the collateral death and destruction interred in infrastructure. (Petna Ndaliko Katondolo)


starring / avec
Precy Numbi, Mega Mingiedi, Chivas Tsongo, Sarah Mukadi

a film by / un film de
Petna NDALIKO KATONDOLO

Congo RDC / USA 2020, fiction, 22', Couleur & Noir / Blanc, Sans dialogue

CAST / ACTRICES - ACTEURS
Precy Numbi (Robot / Robot)
Mega Mingiedi (Chief / Chef)
Chivas Tsongo (Goat Man / Homme chèvre)
Sarah Mukadi (Queen / Reine)

Producer / Productrice
Cherie Rivers Ndaliko

Executive Producer / Productrice déléguée
Cherie Rivers Ndaliko

Director / Réalisateur :
Petna Ndaliko Katondolo

Screenwriter / Scénariste :
Petna Ndaliko Katondolo

Cinematographer / Images
Emmanuel Vinywasiki Katya

Editor / Montage
Petna Ndaliko Katondolo

Sound Designer / Conception sonore
Petna Ndaliko Katondolo

Sound / Son
Jay Safari

Production Manager / Directeur de production
Ganza Buroko

PRODUCTION / PRODUCTION
Alkebu Film Productions
Goma, République démocratique du Congo
+243 997123055
director(@)yoleafrica.org


FESTIVALS / AWARDS

Berlinale 2021 (01-05/03/2021 online & 09-20/06/2021 (BERLIN, Deutschland)
* Sektion: Forum Expanded
www.berlinale.de/de/programme/202111144.html