Sol in the Dark

A cinematographic and multimedia collage project by Mawena Yehouessi whose ambition is to generate new contexts of cocreation as synonyms of alternative modes of coexistence From script writing to filming postproduction and distribution the film is an invitation to over fifty artists researchers students and amateurs to retrace altogetherin a poetic and speculative waythe Myth of Lascar The term Lascar is said to come from Persian meaning army It was notably used during the 19th century to designate South East Asian native soldiers enrolled by the European colonial forces at sea In the 1990s in France Lascar has become a contemptuous qualifier referring to 2nd and 3rd generation French BIPOC kids from the suburbsfrom their daily struggles to their knowledgemaking