Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Strange Culture (2007) is a brilliantly conceived documentary that breaks conventional rules to tell a story of post-9/11 paranoia and the risks artists face when their work questions government policies. The subject of this film- artists and college professor Steve Kurtz- has been charged as a suspected terrorist and faces up to […]
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Leonard Retel Helmrich is an internationally recognized Indonesian filmmaker. His featured documentary The Eye of the Day (2001) made him famous in the documentary film world. The follow-up, Shape of the Moon (2004), was selected for many important festivals and won the top documentary award at the Sundance Film Festival. In Helmrich’s Promised Paradise: How […] |
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Filmmaker Raquel Cepeda presents Bling A Planet Rock (2007), a feature documentary by Raquel Cepeda, takes a hard-hitting look at how “blinging” in the flashy world of commercial hip-hop played a role in the 10-year civil war in Sierra Leone. This film takes U.S. hip-hop celebrities Paul Wall, Latin hip-hop artist Tego Calderon, and Raekwon […] |
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Part of the African Film Festival, a screening of Clouds Over Conakry (2007) by Cheick Fantamady Camara. At the age of 25, the artist-caricaturist BB finds himself faced with an impossible choice. Son of Karamo, the inflexible imam (who is also the guardian of his village’s ancestral traditions), BB is chosen to be his father’s […] |
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As part of the African Film Festival, we present a screening of Balfua Bakupu-Kanyinda’s film Juju Factory (2007). Kongo Congo lives in Brussels, in the Matange district on which he is writing a book. His editor wants a kind of traveler’s book spiced with ethnic ingredients. However, the writer is inspired by the vision of […] |
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Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Les Saignantes (2005) is a superbly photographed, stylishly edited, and tastefully scored film about two young femmes fatales who set out to rid a futuristic country of its corrupt and sex-obsessed powerful men. Young, attractive, fashionable, and lethal, they are on a mission to change the destiny of their country. Reveling in its […] |
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