Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
© Florent de La Tullaye
Sitos, On Alert In Kinshasa
Original title: Sitos, Kinshasa sur le qui-vive
Directed by Florent de La Tullaye
Duration 12’ | Lingala, French with English subtitles
Officially selected for #WOMEX22 Film Programme:
Saturday 15:30
Film Room
Production Country, Year France, 2022 | Produced by Idol Media, Pam I Pan African Music | Producers Julien Kourbatoff, Vladimir Cagnolari | Executive Producer La Belle Kinoise | Director of Photography Florent de La Tullaye | Sound Florent de La Tullaye | Editor La Belle Kinoise
Sitos is a former gang member from Kinshasa, who put away his machete, earning his living unloading goods in the harbor. When he manages to save a few Congolese francs, he records his songs in a small studio whose sound engineer and beatmaker has become the specialist of a musical genre that is not yet listed on the music maps: ‘zagué’.
For Florent de La Tullaye, it all started in 2004 with a first film in the ghettos of Kinshasa and the meeting of its countless musicians: La danse de Jupiter. He later followed hundreds of African musicians, invited by Damon Albarn, for a tour of England on board a train transformed into a mobile studio, the Africa Express.
More info about the WOMEX 22 Film Programme here: womex.com
See you in Lisbon!
#worldwidemusic #musicfilm
© Florent de La Tullaye
Sitos, On Alert In Kinshasa
Original title: Sitos, Kinshasa sur le qui-vive
Directed by Florent de La Tullaye
Duration 12’ | Lingala, French with English subtitles
Officially selected for #WOMEX22 Film Programme:
Saturday 15:30
Film Room
Production Country, Year France, 2022 | Produced by Idol Media, Pam I Pan African Music | Producers Julien Kourbatoff, Vladimir Cagnolari | Executive Producer La Belle Kinoise | Director of Photography Florent de La Tullaye | Sound Florent de La Tullaye | Editor La Belle Kinoise
Sitos is a former gang member from Kinshasa, who put away his machete, earning his living unloading goods in the harbor. When he manages to save a few Congolese francs, he records his songs in a small studio whose sound engineer and beatmaker has become the specialist of a musical genre that is not yet listed on the music maps: ‘zagué’.
For Florent de La Tullaye, it all started in 2004 with a first film in the ghettos of Kinshasa and the meeting of its countless musicians: La danse de Jupiter. He later followed hundreds of African musicians, invited by Damon Albarn, for a tour of England on board a train transformed into a mobile studio, the Africa Express.
More info about the WOMEX 22 Film Programme here: womex.com
See you in Lisbon!
#worldwidemusic #musicfilm
