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Premiere on June 6 , 2020 , Sammy Baloji Baloji Sammy 22 rue Guillaume Apollinaire, 6 22 rue Guillaume Apollinaire, Paris Color calibration: Charbon Studio — Michaël Cinquin Supports : Mu.ZEE | Oostende ; Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec (CALQ) ; Festival d’automne à Paris Sammy Baloji and David N. Bernatchez David and Baloji Sammy Rules,Rumba nouvelles généalogies documentaryFeature film Production: Twenty Nine Studio & Production, Brussels, Co-production: Quebec, Canada Paysdenvie, Sound mixing: Studio A Sound — Frédéric Furnelle and David N. Bernatchez Bernatchez N. David and

41 rue Mazarine, 75006 Paris + 33 (0)1 46 33 13 13 – [email protected] Imane Farès www.imanefares.com PRESS RELEASE - 2/6 Rumba Rules, by Sammy Baloji and David N. Bernatchez. N. Bernatchez. Sammyby Baloji David and here in collaborationin with Mutotu and Idea Coproduction with Mu.ZEE and Festival d’Automne à Paris With the support of: CALQ, FWB, FRQSC, PRIM, SPIRA A film by SammyA film Baloji N. by and David Bernatchez, DR Congo / Canada / Belgium, 2020 Lingala and minutes,108 French, French V. O. subtitles Image: Kiripi Katembo Siku, Sammy Baloji, N. David Bernatchez, Nelson Makengo Sound: N. David Bernatchez, Dolet Malalu, Serge Makobo Nine Studio N.Produced (David & Production and Bernatchez) Twenty Paysdenvie (Rosa by Spaliviero), the city Kinshasa, of the film the rumba gets as into if it were penetrating a rootstock. Through studio work, rehearsals and concerts, different portraits the into dynamics offer a foray and stories highly this of acclaimed Congolese music. local From roots the patrons from to the diaspora, the voices Rumba of Rules polyphony are past and present. poses an incursion the arcanes into a monumental of music. African An essay on the meaningself of and rootedness, the film a kind in culminates urban of polyphony. Lumumba, Mayi, La AlfredGuerrière, Xéna Solo,Ya Soleil Pitchou Travolta, others: and many Patron nearly thirty artists feed the the Brigade of creative life Orchestra. Sarbati By the entering group and sessions. Reservations the one daily of Permeating life the great of orchestras the current of generation, «Rumba Rules“ pro In accordance with current sanitary regulations, seating is limited and two screenings 6 pm. are at 3:30 pm and planned: at A presentation between place Sammy by Baloji will take the two Selected world a premiere the for 33rd at edition the of International the film will be screenedDocumentary (IDFA), Amsterdam Festival in the presence at June 6, 2021 in Sammy of Baloji on Sunday, Silencio pop-up, 6e. 22 Rue Guillaume Apollinaire, Paris Twenty Nine Studio Nine & Production, with in collaboration Twenty Farès Imane the previewgallery, pleased is to the of you filminvite to New Genealogies

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(2020) (2016) (2017) (2011) (2007) In SeptemberIn Sammy Baloji2019, started in a PhD Memoire Bende’s Error Copper the of Cross Garden: 1 Episode Tales The Tower Pungulume Face Bare Biennial (2015), the PhotoquaiBiennial Festival the Musée (2015), at du Quai 2015). (Paris, Branly filmography: Selective Dreams of Human, First Slaughterhouse : The or the Kasala Now : City Congo, in Life Sammy Baloji de and Boeck», Filip and WIELS, BrusselsThe Plant, Power Toronto (2016-2017), and «Hunting and Collecting», Mu. ZEE Kunstmuseum aan He has zee, recently Ostend (2014). par documenta 14 the Sydney in Biennialticipated (2020), the Venice Biennial (2015), 2017),(Kassel/Athens, the Lyon Other Tales», Lund Konsthall and Aarhus Kunsthal (2020); Other Lund Konsthall and Aarhus Tales», Kunsthal (2020); «Congo, Fragments d’une histoire», du Jour, Point Le and Snakes»,Cherbourg «A Blueprint (2019); for Toads Framed,Framer «Sven Amsterdam (2018); & Augustijnen Sammy Baloji», Museumcultuur Strombeek «Urban (2018); Rolex Mentor andRolex Protégé Arts he 2019-2020, In Initiative. was a resident the Académie – Villa à de France at Médicis. Sammy Baloji co-founded 2008 in the Rencontres Picha/Biennale de Lubumbashi. His recent personal exhibitions include «Sammy Baloji, Artistic Research titled “Contemporary Kasala and Lukasa: towards a Reconfiguration Identity of and Geopolitics” at Sint Lucas Antwerpen. A Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, he has received nume the including fellowships and rous awards, distinctions cultural and historical tensions. He explores architecture and the human body as traces sites social of history, of memory and witnesses the operations to power. of Brussels and Lubumbashi Sammy Baloji is a visual artist As an and photographer. artist, realities, juxtaposes Baloji combining photographic illicit past present, and and blatant real ideal, and with Sammy Baloji Baloji Sammy Lubumbashi in B. 1978 in between works and Lives

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