THE INCANTATION OF THE DISQUIETING MUSE. On Divinity, Supra-Realities or the Exorcisement of Witchery
Keynote Lecture by Jean-Pierre Bekolo
June 9, 2016

In this country in many African colonies, in the United States of America. Black people lived haunted by that future of living in a world where they won’t be slaves anymore.

I remember Manu Dibango, famous singer telling me how in the 50ies he never thought Cameroon, his country will be one day independent. We are living some people’s future.

For decades, Cinema has been offering us different futures, cinema has become the medium of our utopias, maybe it is better that way they remain in cinemas. Because all intellectual models of utopias we know since Plato Campanella, Fournia etc. are building a totalitarian society, and communism that was the only applied utopia proved it. Utopia is not meant to be directed towards human beings , utopia should be directed towards technology, therefore a medium such as cinema or the Internet, that is meant to assist human beings in their daily life. It leaves that way some freedom to us to interpret the metaphor it generates and translates it in an intellectual work.Technology more than human beings is the place of utopia.