English subtitles
29 mins
Aspect ratio: 16:9 & 4:3
4K & Mini DV Pro
5.1 / DCP
Available for screening and exhibition format
Ficción - UK, Belgium, Spain
African fashion model Alexandra Cartier meets Jorge Luis Borges in a visionary experience. What does the famous Argentine modernist writer have to say about our contemporary ecological and pandemic problems?
Commissioned by: Artscouncil England; Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Belgium; Coventry Biennale of Contemporary Art and Nottingham Contemporary Arts Center. Production support from 2deo and Tabakalera, San Sebastian.
Director and writer = Grace Ndiritu
Executive Producers = Julieta Juncadella & Grace Ndiritu
Producer = Julieta Juncadella
Production Assistant = Elisa Celda Laurent-Atthalin
Director of Photography = Pablo Paloma
Camera Assistant = Carlos Rigo Bellver & Anna Ferron
2nd assistant= Eva Mackey
Sound recordist = José María Avilés
Art Production = Pigmento Studio
Costume designer = Andrea Celda Laurent-Atthalin
Hair & Makeup = Mary Correa Alcalá
Editor = José María Avilés
Colorist = Clara Rus
Sound Design = Martin Gabriel Scaglia
Selections and Screenings:
Black Beauty - one channel projection at film festivals and cinemas
World Premiere - 32nd FID Marseille (July 2021)
16th Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival (August 2021)
'Edge of Belief', Close up Centre, London (Dec 2021)
'Back to Earth: Afrofuturist Short Films' Cinematheque, Vancouver (June 2022)
Wairoa Maori Film Festival, New Zealand (July 2022)
Jarman Award Tour - Void, Derry; g39, Cardiff; Nottingham Contemporary; CCA Glasgow; Spike Island, Bristol; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne and Whitechapel Gallery, London (autumn 2022)
B3 Biennial of the Moving Image (Oct 2022)
Evening of Grace Ndiritu - Cinema Lumière Antwerp (Oct 2023)
Black Beauty: For A Shamanic Cinema - two channel film in museums and galleries
World Premiere - '72nd Berlinale' film festival in section Forum Expanded (Feb 2022)
'Our Silver City; 2094', Nottingham Contemporary (2021)
'Coventry Biennal', Herbert Art Gallery (2021)
'Celine Condorelli', Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (June 2022)
'Healing The Museum' mid-career survey of Grace Ndiritu at S.M.A.K. Ghent (Oct 2023)
Selected Press - reviews/ mentions
The Guardian, Art Monthly, BOMB, TRIGGER, and FAD