Le voyage de la vénus noire

A luminous epic in search of the bodies of black women broken by art history.

A woman travels, in a dream, through all the museums of the world. She sets out in search of all the broken bodies of Black women, violated by history, and embarks with them on a journey through time.

In this luminous, restorative epic, written by African-American poet Robin Coste Lewis, Alice Diop has recognized her own questionings and struggles: to give sight to what has been relegated to anonymity, to offer sanctuary to orphaned narratives, to stitch together dismembered existences. As a conduit for this text, the filmmaker has imagined a device that is all about purity. An intimate space in which she traverses these words anew every evening as if for the first time, secretly making them vibrate with her own experience.