Villa Madjo
Synopsis
Starting from the fact that her white-skinned father was born in Africa, and her black-skinned mother in Europe, the director traces her family's complex history, from colonialism to their experience as an interracial couple in Europe between the 1950s and 1970s.
About
Elen Sylla Grollimund
Elen Sylla Grollimund is a photographer, video artist and animator based in Brussels. She studied photography at LABA in Brescia (Italy), then worked in Paris as a photographer and videographer for various music artists. She moved to Brussels and joined Atelier Graphoui in 2019, where she led several film and workshop projects, including Mouvements d'identité (2019), Et la lumière fût et autres illuminations (2019), Ceci n'est pas une fiction (2019), 7 jours sur 7 (Triennale de Louvain-la-Neuve, 2021). Villa Madjo is his first short documentary.
