Collectif Faire-Part

Victoire Karera Kampire

Victoire Karera Kampire (1990) is a Rwandan-Belgian director and sound designer. She holds a Master’s degree in New Media and Society (VUB) and is a graduate of LUCA School of Arts, in audiovisual arts. At the heart of her artistic quest is the notion of absence, filling her films—places of hallucinated archives and experimentation at the border of documentary and fiction—with ghostly presences. 

Working and exploring beyond the single-screen experience, she also creates video pieces for theater and exhibition spaces (It is Like a Finger Pointing a Way to the Moon, in collaboration with Moya Michael @ KVS-WIELS; Joy Boy, A Tribute to Julius Eastman, in collaboration with Collectif Faire-Part, Fallon Mayanja, and Mawena Yahouessi at De Singel). 

In parallel to her filmmaking practice, Victoire Karera Kampire has worked as a documentary research assistant on Johan Grimonprez’s feature film Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, awarded at Sundance and nominated for the 97th Oscars. Her next documentary, Ejo, produced by Atelier Graphoui, has just entered the development phase and was part of Doc Lab Montreal from the festival RIDM 2024 ( Recipient of the Regards sur les Docs x Doc Lab Award / En ville ! Festival – Brussels ). She is currently one of the 2024–2025 associated artists of the Beursschouwburg (Brussels).

Fallon Mayanja

Sound artist, composer and performer whose practice engages voice, electronic music and speculative narration. Graduated from the Post-Diploma in Sound Arts at the Beaux-Arts of Lisbon and holding a Master’s degree from INA GRM, Fallon develops a practice rooted in live performance. Their work explores listening as a political and relational practice, where sound, technology and environment operate interconnected mediums of exchange.

Drawing from Detroit techno, oral archives, sonic rituals and experimental poetry, Fallon develops immersive performances and sound works unfolding through electronic narratives and extended modes of attention. These narratives construct non-linear stories where sound acts as both language and space for the circulation of affects, bodies and imaginaries.

Their practice is inherently collaborative : working with artists, musicians, performers, and conceiving sound as a relational space through which collective forms of listening emerge. These collaborations form transnational constellations that echo Afro-diasporic and queer speculative futures. Alongside their artistic practice, Fallon develops pedagogical projects focused on voice, listening, sonic ritual and electronic improvisation.

Mawena Yehouessi

Mawena Yehouessi is a curator, searcher and artist. Inspired by afrofuturism and Black studies, she co-founded the collective Black(s) to the Future (2015) and loves to work in teams. Currently finishing their PhD on collage at the Villa Arson and Université Côte d’Azur, M/Y’s practice takes multiple shapes. From producing exhibitions to filmmaking, critical writing to spoken poetry, translation and contemporary dance, etc. They have collaborated with Spectre Productions, 72nd Berlin International Film Festival, Germany; Triennale Art & Industrie de Dunkerque, France; Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium; Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, France; HEAD – Genève, Geneva, Switzerland; Congo Biennale, Kinshasa, DRC; ENSA Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France; Brook Publishing, Paris, France; Contour Biennale, Mechelen, Belgium; Black Portraitures III Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa; Centre International de Poésie Marseille, France; Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, France – amongst other people, stories, epistemologies, scales and sites.

Anne Reijniers

Anne Reijniers is a Belgian filmmaker, curator and farmer. In her artistic practice, she investigates collective filmmaking, decolonisation,anti-capitalist gardening, and slow forms of resistance grounded in care. She is a co-founder of the Belgian-Congolese film ensemble Collectif Faire-Part, with whom she develops collaborative film projects rooted in shared histories and political engagement. Her films include Faire-Part (2019), L’Escale (2022), Speech for a Melting Statue (2023), and Gesamthof / A Lesbian Garden.

These films have been presented widely at international film festivals and art contexts, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), BFI London Film Festival, Hot Docs (Toronto), RIDM Montréal, Cinemigrante (Buenos Aires), among others. The work of Collectif Faire-Part has received multiple awards and critical recognition for its formally inventive, politically engaged, and collective approach to cinema. 

Alongside her collaborative film work within Collectif Faire-Part, Anne develops film projects that engage with ecological practices. Gesamthof / A Lesbian Garden explores gardening as a queer, feminist, and anti-capitalist practice, using the garden as a site of care, alliance, and alternative kinship. The film extends her ongoing research into land-based practices and collective forms of living and working, foregrounding the garden as both a political space and a cinematic one.

Paul Shemisi

Paul Shemisi is a Congolese filmmaker, cinematographer, and interdisciplinary artist with a practice grounded in documentary storytelling, visual culture, and community engagement. Beginning his career as a camera assistant for international film crews in Kinshasa, Paul later trained at Les Ateliers Action (INSAS), where he developed his cinematic voice across roles as director, co-director, screenwriter, producer, and director of photography. Together with Nizar Saleh, Paul co-founded Kimpavita Film, a production house that supports independent cinema and visual projects in and beyond the Democratic Republic of Congo. µ

He is a founding member of Collectif Faire-Part, with whom he has co-created several acclaimed films that interrogate post-colonial narratives, urban life, and global mobility—such as Faire-Part and L’Escale—and has presented works in international contexts including film festivals, educational workshops, and collaborative exhibitions. 

In addition to his collaborative work, Paul has directed individual films such as Zone M and Bayindo, which further explore themes of social memory, decolonisation, and everyday life in the DRC.

Paul’s multifaceted practice also includes photography and rap music, reflecting deep engagement with representation, place, and resistance.

Rob Jacobs

Rob Jacobs (he/they) is a filmmaker and organizer who approaches filmmaking as a form of conversation. Together with Paul Shemisi, Anne Reijniers, and Nizar Saleh, he co-founded Collectif Faire-Part, a Belgo-Congolese film ensemble in which he has primarily developed as a film editor. The collective’s films have circulated internationally across film festivals and art spaces—including IFFR, BFI London Film Festival, Hot Docs, and Cinemigrante—earning recognition for a practice that combines formal experimentation, political urgency, and collective authorship. Collectif Faire-Part is currently exploring the possibility of developing a research project on collective filmmaking and screening practices at the art school KASK. Originally trained in psychology, Rob maintains a strong interest in the intersection of wellbeing and creative practice. After gaining experience working with high school students on masculinity and non-violent communication, he is now training to become a group therapist and facilitator.

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COLLECTIF FAIRE-PART is een ensemble van Belgische & Congolese filmmakers die nieuwe verhalen vertellen over Kinshasa, over Brussel en de vele relaties tussen de twee.