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Thursday, Apr 28, 1983
7:30PM
Jean Rouch and His Camera in the Heart of Africa plus Bregstein Lecture
Dutch filmmaker Philo Bregstein will present a short lecture after his film on Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and anthropologist who took to Africa cinema verité and then "living cinema" (techniques which affect the minimum of involvement on the part of the director). "Jean Rouch is...one of the first to give Black Africans a voice on international screens" (Georges Sadoul). Bregstein filmed Rouch in Niger, where he was making a film with a Nigerian crew. Rouch writes about Bregstein's documentary: "Filming filmmakers is not an easy task.... To undertake such a project in Africa is almost acrobatic.... Philo Bregstein and Dutch television, no doubt for the first time in the history of world television, have managed to make a successful film on filmmakers from Niger, avoiding all the standard traps lying around for Western travellers, the rich-therefore-in-a-hurry traveller, thoughtless givers of 'poisoned presents'.... Where a filmmaking team is forced to remain a group of foreigners, Philo, (working) alone, was forced to share the existence of those he is filming...those that it directly concerns, the Niger filmmakers...."
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