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Sunday, Apr 7, 2013
3 pm
Little by Little
“A truly mesmerizing, frequently hilarious, and provocative masterpiece.”-Eric Kohn, Cineaste
(Petit à petit). In this innovative follow-up to Jaguar, Rouch's frequent collaborators Damouré Zika and Lam Ibrahim Dia improvise the scenario. When import-export business takes them to Paris, Zika collects information on the curious habits of Parisian residents, calipers and notepad in hand, performing a reverse ethnography. The duo becomes a quintet as they return home to Niger joined by a dancer, a hobo, and a model. Little by little, their relationships unravel, revealing with biting humor broader conflicts between Africa and Europe, while pointing to the possibility of another model for living.
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