For the closing event of Bijoux Cailloux and Balancing Acts film archivist Annabelle Aventurin curated a film programme on the theme of both exhibitions: labour and the value of work.

Also on the agenda: a discussion between Guy Woueté and Aude Christel Mgba about WAKA Studio, an interactive tour in Balancing Acts, a ‘pimp your jeans’ workshop by Oxfam, a DJ set with Barst and a new edition of Kitchen Stories with Mama Bolingo and Mammy Sylvette. The artists and our team look forward to welcoming you to NW!

About WAKA Cinema

The notion of work is vast and complex. The aim of this programme is to examine its sociopolitical, economic and geostrategic dimensions. The dominant definition of work, which is limited to activity carried out in exchange for remuneration, overshadows the perils, gestures and dramas of everyday practice. Since wage-labour has not fulfilled its promise of liberating the worker, it is time to question the value of (our) work in a context where extractive capitalism is digging ever deeper into the bowels of the living and condemning us ‘to the degeneration of the world’ (Critique de la raison nègre, Achille Mbembe, published by La Découverte, 2013, 2015).

About Annabelle Aventurin

Annabelle Aventurin is a film archivist and programmer. Between 2020 and the end of 2023, she worked at Ciné-Archives on the preservation and distribution of the films of director Med Hondo, part of the film archives of the French Communist Party and the labor movement. In 2022, she directed her first documentary essay, Le Roi n’est pas mon cousin (30′), which has been screened internationally for the past two years.

Practical info

Tickets are only required for the films. There is free access to the exhibitions and other activities of the day. Food and drinks can be ordered and paid at the bar. No reservation needed.

Day ticket for all 3 film programmes + 1 drink: 20 euro
Single ticket per film programme: 7.50 euros