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Edition II ︎ Les Saignantes/ The Bloodettes (2005) ︎ Jean-Pierre Bekolo





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Open Spread: 16” x 11”
Closed: 4” x 11”
64 pages - 4 panels
ISBN: 978-1-7383796-1-3

Words, Concept, Direction: Afi Venessa
Design: Juliette Duhé
Image Treatment & Photo Documentation: Maiko Rodrig
CopyEdits: Samantha Gomes & Sam Rico Batista




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Published with Anteism Books



Emblematic Elusions portrays how African filmmakers redefine the Black form in the visual field from the wounded signifier to an embodied vessel for liberation. Using an erotic lens, each edition presents a film essay analyzing a significant Black African movie.



Edition II surveys how Jean-Pierre Bekolo futurizes, cinematically adapts, and therefore immortalizes the pre-colonial female ritual and society of mevungu. Power hierarchies are turned upside down by positioning the woman's erotic body as the healing vessel to the politically and sexually corrupt state. In both content and form, Edition II explores the futuristic underbelly of Yaoundé through coined concepts of commandment, necropolitics, deathworlds, and jouissance.



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With the blessing of Monsieur Jean-Pierre Bekolo