“A fascinating account.”-Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

(La chasse au lion à l'arc). A chronicle, filmed over seven years (in the savannahs of northern Niger and Mali), of all the technological aspects of lion hunting: making bows, making poison, traps, the hunt and its attendant ritual, etc. But unlike “classic” ethnographic films dealing with hunting technology . . . this film also deals with the relationships between hunters and prey, and inscribes the effect of the hunt on Rouch, and his involvement in it. As a document, it is both personal and ethnographic. . . . The film also raises questions of morality in relation to documentary film practice.