Going in depth into her father’s photo archive and diaries about his experience during the military service at the Sahara spanish colony in 1964, Pilar spots the lost paradise where he always would try to come back. In the eighties and nineties, after the failure of his family project, Manuel Monsell will start to traveling to the Maghreb. Again with his photo camera, he will run after the beauty of some portraits which could move him to the place of his dreams. But all these trips reveal much more about the place of departure than about the place of destination. Romantic love, independence and family compose a stage of a refuge that getting itself broken, it commit ourselves to ask not only about our more sincere desires but also about the need of rethinking the sense of these old words.
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Queen Elizabeth pays homage to Cecil Rhodes on her tour of Africa. Tribes pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth.
An African woman, sitting outside her native hut, is preparing a meal for her guest. The guest, a white female lying on her sickbed, is ambiguously accepting the favours given her by her hospitable servant. This short video work is examining the psychological aspects of the post-colonialism clichés of the relationship Europe- Africa.
An anticolonial film about colonial repression on the Ivory coast. A virulent attack on the French colonial system after the second world war that has been banned in France for half a century.
"Here, the village chief, Sikali Wattara, was smoked out and shot in the back of the neck, a French bullet... Here, a seven-month-old child was killed, a French bullet blew her skull off... Here, blood on the wall, a pregnant woman came to die, two French bullets in her belly... On this African soil, four corpses, three men and a woman murdered in the name of us, people of France!" So spoke René Vautier on his first images as a filmmaker, shot clandestinely in 1949 across colonial Africa and saved in extremis from censorship. Banned for 40 years, the film was rehabilitated in 1990 by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which showed it in embassies in Africa to prove that French anti-colonial sentiment did indeed exist in the early 50s...
Black Cinema trailers that trace its evolution through its most crucial period, 1946-1976. Filled with insights on race and social dynamics, this compendium explores an extensive range of stylistic approaches -Blaxploitation, Comedy, Music Bio, Plantation Drama, and more- all organized by genre, or viewable as one outrageous joyride through motion picture history. Be careful or you just might learn something.
2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.
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