Kempinski, a video work by Neil Beloufa, is a contemporary tale where humans, animals and things all are equal. Like apostles, several lay actors, standing in the neon lights of the periphery of Mali’s capital Bamako at night, describe their ideas of how the future will be. They use the present tense and talk directly into the camera. A young man says that he lives together with hundreds of oxen as the only human being while the neon light in his hand illuminates the light-brown heads of the animals surrounding him. Another man talks about fantastic creatures, speaking cars, mobile houses that roam across continents or a cliff moving from one continent to the next. Another has critical thoughts about civilisation and imagines a life without cars and telephones. Telepathy and speed of light are also mentioned. Are these scenes about mysticism or science fiction? Three bright floodlights diffusely illuminate a stadium. By glowing so closely next to each other, the three circles of light suggest signals of a UFO. Some sounds are pierced by cheeping noises as if simulating an extraterrestrial transmission, as if the speakers were being recorded for an extraterrestrial audience. Or is the western viewer the alien in this context? None of the actors in Neil Beloufa’s video believes in the postmodern motto “everything is possible” anymore. But still their ideas of the future are influenced by exactly this motto.