Nelson Makengo

Nelson Makengo is a Congolese director and visual artist whose work oscillates between contemporary art and cinema. Makengo's latest film Up at Night won the Best Short Documentary Award at IDFA 2019, Derives Prize Award TIFF Namur, Best Short Documentary FIDADOC. It was screened at more than 20 prestigious festivals around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival 2021, Full Frame Documentary International Film Festival, True False Film Festival and Cinéma du réel. His film E'ville (2018) has been presented at more than thirty festivals around the world, winning several awards including the Sharjah Art Foundation Residency Prize at Videobrasil Biennial 2019, the Grand Jury Prize at Documentary Film Festival of Saint-Louis, Senegal and Best Documentary at Rwanda Film Festival.

Recently his installations, photographs and films have been exhibited at WIELS, Videobrasil Biennial, Lubumbashi Biennale, Paiz Art Biennial, Musée International des Arts Modestes, and currently as part of Africa 2020 at the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris.