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Veteran French doc director Dominique Dubosc revisits the South American country where he taught ethnology, made his first films and got a taste of life under a military dictatorship.
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Harlem USA, between 11pm and midnight, on Election Day 2008. A happy dream, with a last dreamlike but rather disquieting image...
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In a country that has been occupied for decades, a couple of puppeteers continue to bring a little joy from village to village. The children laugh, perhaps still unaware of the gravity of the situation. The central section is devoted to a visit to the refugee camp of Dheisheh.
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In a mimetic approach to that of the great documentarian, Dubosc delivers notes and fragments of their meetings between 1991 and 1992 in New York. In his apartment, Mekas lends himself, with poetry, to the game of the filmer-filmed. Numerous excerpts from his films are inserted into the montage.
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The first film in Jean Rouch's filmography is not his first film at all. It was edited by a French news company, using images he had shot but organised into a very different sequence from his own. On top of that, it was accompanied by a colonialist commentary said by a sports reporter! As we watch, Jean Rouch ad-libs a new commentary more in keeping with his images, and so, in 1991, he finally finishes his first film! - Dominique Dubosc
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"I always hoped that one day my father would write me a letter telling me where he had hidden his love for me. But then he died and I never received the letter." As part of a series commissioned by French TV station ARTE in which 18 filmmakers were asked to use a Hi8 camera and fill a tape with a single shot, Dubosc takes the camera around his deceased father's house in Kamakura and, inspired by the above quote, describes the rare moments in which his father showed his love.
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Days of Our Death is a documentary about workers in an army occupied tin mine in Bolivia. The film alternates between showing the men, women, and children of the community at work and going to school and showing a street celebration. Narration over the scenes of work consist of sentences written by the children in school exercise spoken in Spanish and repeated in French.
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MANOJHARA portrays – in their own words – the experiences of the residents of Paraguay’s Santa Isabel leper colony. They narrate images of life in the colony with statements about moving from the periphery of the colony, where the healthier patients stay, to the center, where the dying patients are, as well as anticipation of a celebration and not wanting to feel ill and outcast.
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A day in the life of a Franciscan peasant family in Paraguay in 1968, depicting the Cabral family's gestures, attitudes, small daily events, affective relationships, and dignity.
