Les Mains qui travaillent
(2024, 8’)
Les mains qui travaillent (translated as ‘working hands’) documents the repeated task of sorting peanuts performed in a women’s collective in Niger. Beyond the manual labour captured by the frame, the women’s gossipy dialogue playfully reorients our focus onto the act of looking itself, disrupting the traditional power dynamics between subject and camera in imagery produced by humanitarian agencies.
With: Salouba, Fasouma, Mariama, Sahou, Souweba, Biba, Miles & Eva
Images: Miles Fischler
Color Grading: Thijs Paijmans
Production: Animal Tank & De Imagerie
Supported by: Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)