Vis-à-Vis
Vis-à-Vis is a 12-minute experimental narrative short film centered around first-generation painter Moussa and his psyche as he internally grapples with his father’s ailing condition. Sitting with archives, he fleshes out a memory — a day of rare, confined intimacy with his father.
Screenings
Virtual
Availability BeginsSunday, August 95:30PM EDT
Directors Spotlight
Mamadou Yattassaye
Director
Mamadou Yattassaye is a first-generation Malian filmmaker, singer-songwriter, and poet from Harlem, New York. Through both surrealism and the concrete reality, his stories voyage through African lineage, faith, fragmentation, spectacle, intimacy, and coming of age, what he calls the “blurred waltz of the African soul.”
- Year
- 2025
- Runtime
- 13 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French, Bambara
- Director
- Mamadou Yattassaye
- Screenwriter
- Mamadou Yattassaye
- Producer
- Jessica Qian
- Executive Producer
- Camp Studios
- Cast
- Alex Sanon, Antwon Brooks, Yaya Diawara, Nixon Mckenzie, Diaraye Diallo, Calvin Atieku, Anaïs Lawson, Fatumata Sheriff, Kadialy Toure, Michael Mugerwa, Momodou Lamin Jaata, Minchailou Kanoute, Mantjita Camara
- Cinematographer
- John Zeng
- Editors
- Hailey Choi, Mamadou Yattassaye
- Production Designs
- Yige Duan, Zheng Ma, Zoey Kang, Zihao Dong, Christina Wang
- Composers
- Juan Dussan, Mamadou Yattassaye
- Sound Design
- Matthew Tammariello, Mamadou Yattassaye
- Premiere
- Philadelphia