Chris Marker & Alain Resnais - Les Statues Meurent Aussi aka Statues Also Die (1953)
Engr. Salahuddin
on 2:38 AM
30:03 Min | 720x544 | Xvid 993 kbps | 25 fps | Mp3 128 Kbps | 243 MB
French | Subtitles: English and Spanish .srt | Genre: Documentary
This collaborative film, banned for more than a decade by French censors as an attack on French colonialism (and now available only in shortened form), is a deeply felt study of African art and the decline it underwent as a result of its contact with Western civilization. Marker's characteristically witty and thoughtful commentary is combined with images of a stark formal beauty in this passionate outcry against the fate of an art that was once integral to communal life but became debased as it fell victim to the demands of another culture.
“Cuando los hombres están muertos, entran en la historia. Cuando las estatuas están muertas, entran en el arte. Esta botánica de la muerte, es lo que nosotros llamamos la cultura.” Así comienza este documental de controversia que cuestiona la diferencia entre el arte negro y el arte real; pero sobretodo la relación que tiene el Occidente con este arte, al cual apunta a destruir sin darse cuenta.
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