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Statues Also Die (1953)

Statues Also Die

Subtitles for: Statues Also Die (1953)

Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is devalued and alienated through colonial and museum contexts. Beginning with the question of why African works are confined to ethnographic displays while Greek or Egyptian art is celebrated, the film became a landmark of anti-colonial cinema and was banned in France for eight years.

Rate★ 6.9/10 (49 votes)
GenreDocumentary
Duration0h 30m
CountryFrance
Release01 May 1953
LanguageFR
DirectorChris Marker, Alain Resnais, Ghislain Cloquet
Keywordspoliticsafricaanthropologyracismartcolonialismafrican art
IMDbtt0046365 ↗
TypeMovie Released

Cast

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Jean NégroniNarrator (voice)
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François MitterrandSelf (archive footage)
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Pope Pius XIISelf (archive footage)
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Sugar Ray RobinsonSelf (archive footage)
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