Movies: African art

  • 1953
    Statues Also Die

    Statues Also Die (1953)

    Statues Also Die

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    Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the African in the anthropology museum while Greek or Egyptian art are in the Louvre?", the directors expose and criticize the lack of consideration for Afri...

    Statues Also Die
  • 2022
    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art

    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art (2022)

    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art

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    There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This documentary traces the progression of colonial history from the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 to the systematic ...

    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
  • 2021
    The Rumba Kings

    The Rumba Kings (2021)

    The Rumba Kings

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    In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African tunes with Afro-Cuban music to create the electrifying Congolese rumba, a style that conquered the en...

    The Rumba Kings
  • 2019
    Africa Rising

    Africa Rising (2019)

    Africa Rising

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    How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a nicer portrait of this amazing continent, historically known for tragic subjects, such as slavery, famine...

    Africa Rising
  • 2015
    Delivery

    Delivery (2015)

    Delivery

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    A peaceful neighborhood, a peaceful home, a peaceful couple who is about to celebrate the arrival of their new piece collection of African Art....

    Delivery