GLORIOUS EXIT

Cameroon, 2005. A man is seized, dragged to a secluded location, tied to a tree, and left to suffer a torturous death by starvation according to the precepts of local village justice. The unwritten charges against him include: invocation of evil spirits, practicing black magic against other villagers and socially unacceptable behaviour. Who is the prosecutor and who is the judge? In his barely 10-minute-long depiction of this complex situation, the film’s director leaves many questions unanswered, including some that leave his own behaviour opposite the events open to criticism. Filming a societal outcast’s last hours of life, accepting the unjust demise of another individual without attempting to intervene, and then offering these filmed images to the public – such actions can only lead to heated debate, and rightfully so.