cucullas:

sesiondemadrugada:

Les statues meurent aussi (Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker & Alain Resnais, 1953).



Statues also Die is a good film for those interested in art and museums. Commissioned and partially paid by Présence Africaine it was released in 1953. The film shows how the treatement of African art (called Art Nègre at the time and considered simpler) and Colonialism erased African cultures and denied African and Black people the dignity of their past. It was forbidden as in the ‘50 French still had colonies in Africa, it was allowed on 1963.

You can watch it here in (French with English subtitles) [many scenes of colonial France and an animals suffering dying]