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About: Introduction, Search for Information

Fri, 3 Apr 1998 06:18:43 -0800 (PST)

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    Originally dated: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 06:18:43 -0800 (PST)

    > Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 11:16:37 +0100
    > From: "Dr. Brigitte Reinwald" <h0208dsn@rz.hu-berlin.de>
    > Organization: Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
    > Subject: Introduction, Search for Information
    >
    > Hello,
    > thank you for having me included in the african-cinema-confernence. I
    >
    > am an historian, working on Western Africa, especially the former
    > French
    > colonies. Apart from being a passionate viewer of African featrure
    > films, I am trying to integrate filmic work in my university lectures
    > an
    > seminaries, discussing films as sources for and mediums of hsitorical
    > collective memory.
    >
    > Right now, I am preparing a lecture on John Akomfrah and I am looking
    > for further information concerning the author, his film "Memory Room
    > 451" (GB 1997), and more generally, about the Black Audio Film
    > Collective.
    >
    > Looking forward to every hint concerning this subject and thnak you in
    >
    > advance.
    >
    > Brigitte Reinwald

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