Synopsis
Alberta's Room is a journey into the dreams and nightmares of Alberta Gay. The film looks back at a pop icon's tragic fate, exploring a female perspective on a tragedy that has been described as a man's business. Alberta's Room is an experimental film about absence and grief, straddling the border between documentary and fiction.
About
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 from 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 for exhibition spaces, (« it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon » in collab with Moya Michael @ KVS-WIELS ; « Joy Boy, A tribute to Julius Eastman » in collab with Collectif Faire-Part, Fallon Mayanja et Mawena Yahouessi @ deSingle ). In parallel to her filmmaking practice, Victoire Karera K. has worked as a documentary research assistant on Johan Grimonprez's last feature film “Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat”, awarded at Sundance. Her next documentary, “Ejo”, has just entered the development phase and is one of the projects selected for the Doc Lab Montreal from the festival RIDM. She is currently one of the 24-25 associated artists of the Beursschouwburg.