What’s in a name? For the Congolese Belgian rapper-turned-filmmaker Baloji, whose directorial debut, “Omen,” bows in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section on May 22, it’s a question …
For the Congolese Belgian rapper-turned-filmmaker Baloji, whose directorial debut, “Omen,” bows in the
He admits it took a long time for him to come to terms with the stigma attached to that moniker, acknowledging now, “That name influenced the person I am.” Nowhere is that clearer than in Baloji’s startling directorial debut, a kaleidoscopic portrait of four characters accused of witchcraft that uses arresting visuals and magical-realist flourishes to blur the line between fantasy and reality.
That year marked a turning point for the young artist, who received a letter from his estranged mother in Congo. It was the start of a rapprochement with his birth country, which would begin to inform his music and shape his visual aesthetic. That might have been for the best. His first scripts, by the director’s own admission, skewed conventional, and for a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in fashion, art and design, it took time to discover his cinematic voice — to “make films that combine all the art forms that define me as a person,” he says.
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