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XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Festival panafricain d'Alger
Pan-African Festival of Algiers
William Klein
Algeria, France, Germany
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Synopsis
"African culture will be revolutionary or will not be", concludes this vast historical portrait on Pan-Africanism as thoughts on emancipation. Edited with a dynamic pacing reminiscent of black music, the great theorists of decolonization and incoming national leaders appear together with the architects of new black culture, while the on-screen texts shred the colonialist system and its machinery of oppression.
Biography of the director
William Klein
Born in New York in 1928, he is a US-born photographer and film director who has conducted his career in France. Closely tied to the May 1968 cultural and political movement in Paris, his work has satirized consumer society, the fashion world, US imperialism and interventionism, both in his work as a photographer and in such feature-length short films as Qui êtes-vous, Polly Magoo? (1966), Mister Freedom (1969), the collective film Far from Vietnam (1967) and The Pan-African Festival of Algiers (1970).
Images gallery
Finished
Sessions
May
Tuesday 14
21:30 h
CINETECA - Sala Borau
Credits
Language
French, English - Subtitles in spanish and english
Director
William Klein
Screenplay
William Klein
Cinematography
Pierre Lhomme, William Klein
Editing
Jacqueline Meppiel, Jean Ravel, Valerie Mayoux, A.M. Deshayes, Ragnar
Sound
Antoine Bonfanti, Sidi Boumedine, Serge Beauchemin, Michel Desroi, Dominique Hennequin, Michel Laurent, Pierre Lenoir, Harald Maury, Mohamed Oulmi, J.R. Bertrand
Production companies
L’Office National pour Le Commerce et L’Industrie Cinematographiques de Algeria