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Message from: Steve Smith (SteveSmith@XC.Org)
About: FW: African Political Films

Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:49:49 -0500

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    The following "African Political Films" recently released on
    the list are available from California Newsreel
    AFRIQUE, JE TE PLUMERAI
    ALLAH TANTOU
    FLAME
    GUIMBA
    HYENAS
    MAPANTSULA
    MORTU NEGA (not MORTU GOMES as listed) - A classic film about life in the
    liberated zones during the independence struggle in Guinea-Bissau and the
    years immediately after independence. It is also the first feature film
    from Guinea-Bissau.
    BLUE EYES OF YONTA ( UDJU AZUL DI YONTA)
    ZAN BOKO
    Cornelius Moore
    California Newsreel
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: William P. Coleman [mailto:wpc@wpcmath.com]
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    Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 10:58 AM
    To: Steve Smith; H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU
    <mailto:H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
    Subject: Re: African Political Films, a listing

    I would like to suggest the following addition:
    ARISTOTLE'S PLOT: Director Jean Pierre Bekolo, of Cameroon, presents a
    complex, humane satire of Africa's current relation to the motion picture
    industry and thus of Africans' attitudes about themselves. Full of
    references to and dialogue with Ousmane Sembene.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Eugene Baer [mailto:docbaer@ticon.net]
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    Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 9:57 AM
    To: H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU <mailto:H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
    Subject: African POlitical Films
    Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 11:20 PM
    Subject: Re: African POlitical Films

    Med Hondo's film is actually titled "Lumiere noire" rather than "Lumiere
    blanche" it was adapted from a novel by Didier Daeninckx.
    Hondo has a new film called "Watani, a monde sans mal" he describes the
    title as follows: "Watani means "nation, country, homeland". Un monde sans
    mal is specific and general. We were all born somewhere without having
    asked to be born there and there is the world in which we live. It's the
    contradiction between the nation and homeland we have. I am from Mauritania
    but I belong to a continent which is Africa and this continent belongs to
    the world. It's these two notions combined in a veiled message." From
    interview with Michel Amarger in Ecrans d'Afrique/African Screen, Number 23,
    1998.
    Beti Ellerson
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Eugene Baer [mailto:docbaer@ticon.net]
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    Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 9:56 AM
    To: H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU <mailto:H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
    Subject: African POlitical Films
    Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 9:56 PM
    Subject: Re: African POlitical Films

    Would it be possible for me to find out who submitted this short review of
    FLAME? I'm doing some research on the film and would love to talk to
    someone about it, especially someone who has spoken with Zimbabweans about
    it.
    Thanks,
    Katrina Daly Thompson
    "FLAME: The story of a young woman who joins the guerillas in the 1970s. It
    shows all the horrors of the war, but also the situation of women among the
    guerilla fighters and how they were expected to retreat into their
    submissive role after the end of the war. There was a lot of discussion
    about it in Zimbabwe, especially because the director of the film is a white
    English woman. But as I learned from a former guerilla (female) it gives a
    rather realistic picture of the war."
    ____________________________________________________________
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    Katrina Daly Thompson kdthomp3@students.wisc.edu
    <mailto:kdthomp3@students.wisc.edu>
    Department of African Languages & Literature 262-5758
    UW - Madison
    1468 Van Hise Hall

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