Josèfa Ntjam

Mélas de Saturne is set in a fictional space where the oceanic abyss and the Darknet merge. We are introduced to ‘Persona’, a fictional character who embarks on a journey to discover their algorithmic origins, which they hope to find among the ‘Meta population’ living in north-east Cameroon.

Myceaqua Vitae is a film considering the inseparability between science, aesthetics, and narration. It offers a conduit for myth, laying out a rhythmic and poetic space for the multiplication of voices, trance states, and speculation about shapes of being. Ntjam’s video installation, reminiscent of a spacecraft console—the kind familiar in science fiction—is used to visualize “alien” signals and tell the story of an unclassifiable bioluminescent organism.