1992: El des-cubrimiento (jugar o ser jugado)

Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is devalued and alienated through colonial and museum contexts. Beginning with the question of why African works are confined to ethnographic displays while Greek or Egyptian art is celebrated, the film became a landmark of anti-colonial cin...

Runtime

30m

Director

Chris Marker, Alain Resnais

Cast

Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII

A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from colonial rule to other forms of government, violent political upheavals were frequent. Revolutions in Zanzibar and Kenya in which thousands were killed are shown, the violence not only polit...

Runtime

2h 18m

Director

Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi

Cast

Sergio Rossi, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere

Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.

Runtime

1h 10m

Director

Maria Florio, Victoria Mudd

Cast

Peter MacDonald, Dennis DeConcini, Mae Horseson

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African tunes with Afro-Cuban music to create the electrifying Congolese rumba, a style that conquered the entire continent thanks to an infectious rhythm, captivating guitar sounds and smooth voc...

Runtime

1h 35m

Cast

Simaro Lutumba, Augustin 'Roitelet' Muniania, Manu Dibango

Cast

Caroline Ferrus, Gen Shimaoka, Emmanuel Audibert