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 cinema and was banned in France for eight years.
Chris Marker
Director, Writer
Alain Resnais
Director
Ghislain Cloquet
Director
Jean Négroni
Narrator (voice)
François Mitterrand
Self (archive footage)
Pope Pius XII
Self (archive footage)
Sugar Ray Robinson
Self (archive footage)
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Fuck64%
I Am Not Your Negro77%
Toute la mémoire du monde70%
Looking for Richard68%
The Art of the Steal69%
Sherman's March67%
Naqoyqatsi61%
McQueen74%
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris70%
Finders Keepers65%
Girl Rising70%
The Rachel Divide62%
Sans soleil74%
South of the Border60%
Les Bleus - Une autre histoire de France, 1996-201666%
Les Dites Cariatides63%
You Cannot Kill David Arquette67%
Night Will Fall76%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
