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The memory of blood

The ancestors say that it is not the skeleton that holds the body upright, but the blood. Break the bones of a living being, he still breathes. Empty him of his blood, and his soul evaporates.
Sometimes, life confronts us with difficulties, to remind us that we are not only made of flesh, but also of spirit and soul. That the energy that connects all these worlds would be found in the blood.
What if the blood that flows in your veins was a hard drive on which unimaginable secular data are engraved? What if our blood was a parchment, a living archive, telling your story from the primordial source? What if blood had a memory? What if blood had a memory? What if blood had a memory?
Lakoélé Da Silveira alias Wiggeah is an artist whose life has been, for years, disturbed by repeated trances. It was only after a return to the village and rituals that the cause of the trances was revealed. His journey, the subject of this documentary, reminds us that blood is alive and that transmission is fundamental.

  • Elom Kossi KHAUNBIOW
    Director
  • Elom KHAUNBIOW
    Writer
  • Elom KHAUNBIOW
    Producer
  • Lakoélé Da Silveira
    Key Cast
  • Estelle Foli
    Key Cast
  • Dodo Adogli
    Images and post-production
  • Aymar Gbekou
    Sound
  • Roger Gbékou
    Drone
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    La mémoire du sang
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Spiritual
  • Runtime:
    23 minutes 43 seconds
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Togo
  • Country of Filming:
    Togo
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Travail de mémoire
    Lomé
    Togo
    June 30, 2021
    Travail de Mémoire
  • Belo Horizonte
    Brazil
    November 8, 2021
  • Nantes
    France
    June 24, 2022
Director Biography - Elom Kossi KHAUNBIOW

Elom Khaunbiow alias Elom 20ce is the CEO of Independent Togolese Music label Asrafo Records. He also organizes and facilitates the ARCTIVISM series which places notable African social activists and those of the African diaspora in the focal limelight, while engaging in discourse and musical performances providing an artistic platform for social conscious activists in the capital city. Elom 20ce is a « knocker of invisible » : thinker, panafrican activist, poet, rapper, performer, designer and filmmaker.
Discography
• 2020 – Améwuga • 2015 – Indigo • 2012 – Analgézik • 2010 - Légitime Défense
Filmography
 Documentaries : • 2021 - La mémoire du sang (24 min) • 2020 – Le silence est un cri (26 min) • 2019 – Aux Impossibles Imminents (78 min)
 Video Clips - Fictions : • 2021 – Le fardeau de ma lumière (5 min) • 2020 – Amewuga (6 min) • 2020 - Poings d’interrogation (5 min)
Selected Performances & Exhibitions
2021 “AMEWUGA” avec Anani Akpamagbo, Juvencio Ayivi, Emerson Lawson, Hôtel Onomo, Lomé, Togo.
2020 -“AMEWUGA” avec Juvencio Ayivi & Emerson Lawson, Manufacture 111, Paris, France.
• “LE SILENCE EST UN CRI” avec Emerson Lawson, Hôtel de la Paix, Lomé, Togo.
• “Readings From Below”, Times Art Center, Berlin, Germany.
• “China ⇄ Afrique: Crossing The World Colour Line”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
2019 - “Lome +”, Palais de Lomé, Lomé, Togo.
• “RÉVOLUTION 1/365 - avec Dalila Dalléas Bouzar”, Musée des civilisations noires, Dakar, Sénégal
2018 “Poetry Meets Hip Hop”, Berlin, Germany.
“Festa 2H”, Dakar, Sénégal.
“Afropunk”, Dakar, Sénégal.
“Yoyotinz Festival”, Accra, Ghana.
2017 - “Extra! Festival Des Littératures Hors Du Livre”, Center Pompidou, Paris, France.
“Voice4Thought Festival”, Leiden, Netherlands.
2016 - “PERFORMANCE - INNER PAST avec Dalila Dalléas Bouzar”, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
“HATIKPALA” avec Anani Akpamagbo, Institut Français du Togo, Lomé, Togo.
Award
2020 “1er Prix Documentaire: AUX IMPOSSIBLES IMMINENTS”, 7è édition du festival Emergence.

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