The Places from Which We Are Absent
The filmmaker, Marta Kucza, has been filming her friend Kante, Guinean by origin and Polish by adoption, a night worker in the suburbs of London with a head full of an Africa that he left many years ago. The filmmaker, a low-cost cosmopolitan, perpetually searching for a better place in Western Europe, visits her mother who had fallen ill with cancer in Poland. The camera keeps track of Marta’s and Kante’s fears of an uncertain future, our daily resourcefulness, and friendship – a remedy for the frustrations and setbacks.
2023 (67 mins)
Director/filmmaker: Marta Kucza
Producer/production company: Julien Contreau, Victor Claude, Julie Arrue.
Country of production: Belgium
Country/location of film: Various
Screening: 14.30 Thurs 9th Oct at the Museum of Macedonia
Marta Kucza was born in 1981 in Poland. She graduated from African Studies at the University of Warsaw and participated in Sound/Image/Culture in Brussels, an interdisciplinary programme combining art, documentary film and anthropology. Her first film, the short essay film Reconstructing Sudan (2011), was screened at, among others, the Jean Rouch Festival in Paris. The Places From Which We Are Absent is her first feature-length documentary film.
NAFA 2025 