Kevin B. Lee & Libertad Gills,Video Essay About Alice Diop (2024)
Exploring the films of Alice Diop through critical and poetic forms, this series of video essays engages with her cinematic treatment of place, identity, and lived experience. The works respond to Diop’s blending of documentary and fiction, drawing out resonances in her imagery, rhythm, and political urgency.
Created for L’immagine e la parola at the Locarno Film Festival, each essay reflects a unique encounter with Diop’s work – shaped by the knowledge that she herself would be in the audience.
Read more on the Locarno Film Festival website
List of video essays for the Alice Diop series:
- This Hard Surface by Johannes Binotto
- As I was approaching tenderness by Silvia Cipelletti
- Tracing a train of Thought by Kevin B. Lee
- Respirier Ensemble by Evelyn Kreutzer
- All about love by Libertad Gills
- Still life by Marine De Dardel
Partial listing of video essays on Alice Diop produced by students of the Video Essay Atelier taught by Prof. Kevin B. Lee and Silvia Cipelletti at the USI Accademia di Architettura:
- Vers la tendresse by Valérie Rossier
- Saint Omer by Liza Trudova
- Saint Omer by Elisa Acquistapace, Nadine Bein & Agata Kobuk
- Nous by Marine de Dardel
- Saint Omer by Sophie-Charlotte Frehse
- Vers la tendresse by Matias Nobel & Marten Viohl