Searching for Redemption
In "Searching for Sugar Man," Rodriguez the man feels more like an awkward prop in a story of white redemption rather than the star of his own movie.
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The Trouble with Aid with “The Trouble with Aid”
How the humanitarian movement grew in close relation to the democratization of moving image technologies.
Ghana’s elections: Back to the future
Most of the same issues and personalities that featured in the 2008 elections dominate in the 2012 elections.
Just like in a science fiction movie
Black South Africans' concurrent lives of dread and poverty contradicted the commercialism and profits that went with 2010 World Cup.
The politics of translation
The film, "Veejays," comes across as an earnest attempt to learn about the ways people are remixing dominant culture industries to make their own.
10 African films to watch out for, N°7
I was surprised to find very few films by African directors in this year’s programme of
10 African films to watch out for, N°4
Here are another 10 films we’re hoping to see in the (near) future. First, three “fiction”
Family Matters
Does it matter whether the hip-hop artist Ismael Sankara is related to the great Burkinabe leader, Thomas Sankara?
Documentary–‘I am Malawi’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA6F553L17g ‘I am Malawi’ is a short documentary by Geert Veuskens and Pieter de Vos. (Part
The forefront of innovation
There needs to be another solution than free market capitalism globally to promote artistic creativity. The experience from Sierra Leone is not encouraging.
The documentary imaginery
At the recent Film Africa film festival in London, the new Ethiopian feature film “Atletu” (The
Fighting somebody else's war
By Basia Lewandowska Cummings We British are very good at honoring the dead. Last Friday Prime
Soccer movies about poor, brown people
African football is often depicted with gloom, while European football is either reduced to hooliganism or celebrated through nostalgic 'greatest hits' and childhood wonder on film.
Black Power Mixtape
A critic of the documentary film, "The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975," concludes that as an insight into black power, the documentary is utterly incoherent and useless.
‘The Art of El Anatsui’
Film Review by Elliot Ross* Making a film about an artist whose work is as beautiful
A Long List of New Films
I'm still waiting for that entrepreneur who'll start a Netflix for African films. I'll be a customer.
The Belgian Color Bar
The filmmaker hopes Congolese in Belgium can be given a stage to offer their own history and projections of Congo.
Soccer Soap Opera
Who are the Kenyans who needed a soap opera as an impetus to change their attitudes about political violence and why did they need it?
Dirty Paraffin is "genre-defying"
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5hvSTsYTGk&w=500&h=307&rel=0] We’ve been following The Fader’s Pitch Perfect documentary series since the start of the World
Rankin does South Africa
British fashion photographer Rankin sets out on 'his own personal journey' to understand South Africa. The result is actually quite good.