TITLE: SIGN WARFARE
LOCATION: R.C.A. - R.D.C.
MEDIA: Photographs - Digital Collages
TEXT AUTHOR: Jonathan Littell
YEAR: 2011
LOCATION: R.C.A. - R.D.C.
MEDIA: Photographs - Digital Collages
TEXT AUTHOR: Jonathan Littell
YEAR: 2011
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︎ ”Gulu Real Art Studio” by Martina Bacigalupo
︎ ”Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirit” by Heike Behrend
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SIGN WARFARE (extract)
by Jonathan Littell
by Jonathan Littell
WRONG ELEMENTS
THE MOVIE
ARTICLE IN POLKA 22.03.2017
This Documentary directed by the writer and journalist, Jonathan Littell, focuses on the massacres comitted by the LRA teenagers in Uganda. At teh origin of the project a reportage with the photographer Bénédicte Kurzen.
“Wrong Elements” opens with immense, thick, dark vegetation. The same as the one in which journalist and writer Jonathan Littell was thrown by helicopter one morning in May 2011.
At his side that day, the photographer of Noor agency, specialist in Africa, Bénédicte Kurzen. The young woman was recommended by a friend who had seen her at work in Tahrir Square, in the whirlwind of the Egyptian revolution. The helicopter barely rises in the sky when they are walking in single file, embarked for a week with 45 Ugandan army men.
Jonathan and Bénédicte, with her Rolleiflex, are "embedded" within a squadron that tracks down the last rebels of the LRA, the Lord's Resistance Army. Formed in the late 1980s in northern Uganda by a young insurgent, Joseph Kony, the Lord's Resistance Army developed a terrible machine of destruction in the heart of Africa, kidnapping thousands of teenagers to turn them into mass killers.