Zeka Laplaine
Zeka Laplaine (born 1960), sometimes credited as José Laplaine,[1] is a director and actor from Ilebo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2][3] The child of a Portuguese father and Congolese mother,[4] he moved to Europe when he was 18.[5] His 1996 short film Le Clandestin was featured at the 2010 Amakula International Film Festival in Uganda.[6] He portrayed a cowboy alongside Danny Glover in Death in Timbuktu, a film within a film in the Council of Europe Film Award-winning film, Bamako.[7][8] Laplaine is a member of France's "Guilde Africaine des Realisateurs et Producteurs".[9]
Laplaine's first short film was Le Clandestin,[4] which he wrote, directed and acted in (playing a policeman in charge of a container dock in Lisbon).[4] A French production set in Portugal,[10] Le Clandestin examines African emigration and questions the dream of Europe as a "Northern Paradise" for immigrants.[4][11]
Filmography
| Year | Film | Plot |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Le Clandestin[3][12] | A young African man jumps out of a container at Lisbon harbour. Attempting to meet his cousin in town, he is pursued by a policeman. He never meets cousin, and eventually decides to return to Africa.[4] |
| 1996 | Macadam Tribu[1][12] | Set in Kinshasa, the film shows "unauthorised communities" forming within the official city, and the struggle of characters to survive. A community project—a theatrical production about popular rebellion—provides the backdrop to the fall of President Mobutu Sese Seko.[4][13] |
| 2001 | Paris: XY[1][12] | |
| 2003 | Le Jardin de Papa[1][12] | A French couple honeymoon in Dakar.[4] |
| 2006 | Kinshasa Palace[12][14] | |
| 2007 | Le Lac Sacré[12] |
Actor
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Le Clandestin | A policeman.[3][4] |
| 1996 | Terra Estrangeira | Loli[15] |
| 2001 | Paris: XY | Max.[1] |
| 2006 | Bamako by Abderrahmane Sissako | A cowboy.[3] |
| 2007 | Teranga Blues by Moussa Sene Absa | Zéka.[3][16] |
References
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- ↑ (Thackway 2003, pp. 133)
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- ↑ (Flaxman 2000, pp. 243)
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