In the last decade of the twenty-first century, the colonial issue between Spain and Equatorial Guinea has been approached with greater interest than in previous periods, and numerous theses, research works and books have attempted to broach an issue that is little known in Spanish society. We start from the hypothesis that colonial relations between Spain and Africa are gaining greater interest in the Spanish academic world, and especially in the artistic field; where a notable number of film directors have dealt with the subject of Equatorial Guinea in their documentaries, in an attempt to seek keys to understanding aspects related to colonialism, racism, memory and Afro-descendance. This article presents five contemporary documentary films. These documentaries are: Un día vi diez mil elefantes (One Day I Saw 10,000 Elephants) (Guimerà and Pajares 2015: 00:77:00); El escritor de un país sin librerías (The Writer from a Country without Bookstores) (Serena 2019: 00:79:00), Manolito Nguema (Grunfeld 2019: 00:85:00); Anunciaron Tormenta (A Storm Was Coming) (Vázquez 2020: 00:88:00) and A todos nos gusta el plátano (We all Like Plantain) (Bermúdez 2021: 00:60:00).
在二十一世纪的最后十年，西班牙与赤道几内亚之间的殖民地问题受到了比以往更 大的关注，许多论文、研究著作和书籍都试图探讨这个在西班牙社会鲜为人知的问题。我们的出发点是，西班牙学术界，尤其是艺术界，对西班牙与非洲之间的殖民关系越来越感兴趣；在艺术界，有相当数量的电影导演在其纪录片中涉及赤道几内亚这一主题，试图寻找理解殖民主义、种族主义、记忆和非洲后裔等相关方面的关键。本文介绍五部当代纪录片。这些纪录片是Un día vi diez mil elefantes (One Day I Saw 10,000 Elephants) (Guimerà and Pajares 2015: 00:77:00)；El escritor de un país sin librerías (The Writer from a Country without Bookstores) (Serena 2019：00:79:00), Manolito Nguema (Grunfeld 2019: 00:85:00); Anunciaron Tormenta (A Storm Was Coming) (Vázquez 2020: 00:88:00) and A todos nos gusta el plátano (We all Like Plantain) (Bermúdez 2021: 00:60:00).
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Review of: Africa’s Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema, Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy (eds) (2014) Oxon and New York: Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge, 217 pp., ISBN 978-1-90797-551-6, h/bk, $48.95
回顾：非洲失落的经典：Lizelle Bisschoff 和 David Murphy（编）（2014 年），牛津和纽约：现代人文研究协会和 Routledge，217 页，ISBN 978-1-90797-551-6，H/BK，48.95 美元
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{"title":"The Battle of Algiers, Alan O’Leary (2019)","authors":"A. Mututa","doi":"10.1386/jac_00078_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jac_00078_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The Battle of Algiers, Alan O’Leary (2019) Milan: Mimesis International, 127 pp., ISBN 978-8-86977-079-1, e-book, $18","PeriodicalId":41188,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Cinemas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139262076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes, Kenneth W. Harrow (2022) New York and London: Routledge, 238 pp., ISBN 978-1-00328-889-3, e-book, $35.09
评论Kenneth W. Harrow (2022) New York and London：Routledge，238 页，ISBN 978-1-00328-889-3，电子书，35.09 美元
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Review of: The 21st Century Film, TV & Media School: Challenges, Clashes, Changes, Maria Dora Mourão, Stanislav Semerdjiev, Cecília Mello and Alan Taylor (eds) (2016) Sofia: CILECT – The International Association of Film and Television Schools, 476 pp., ISBN 978-6-19735-800-1, Kindle version, $33
评论21 世纪电影、电视和媒体学校：挑战、冲突、变革》，Maria Dora Mourão、Stanislav Semerdjiev、Cecília Mello 和 Alan Taylor（编辑）（2016 年），索非亚：CILECT - 国际电影电视学校协会，476 页，ISBN 978-6-19735-800-1，Kindle 版，33 美元
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Review of: Projecting Nation: South African Cinemas after 1994 , Cara Moyer-Duncan (2020) East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 298 pp., ISBN 978-1-60917-638-9, e-book, $54.95
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The article is intended to contribute to a growing debate about how to approach and interact with problematic archives. The article examines three works made by a photographer and two filmmakers, respectively, based on their artistic interactions with their respective archives. Their works were brought to annual workshops in 2019 and 2020 organized by Reframing Africa , co-hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg. The central objective of Reframing Africa continues to be lobbying for the preservation, restoration and repatriation of films made by African filmmakers on the continent and in the diaspora. But there has also been growing interest among participants in the colonial and other racially inflected archives of the moving/still image. The main title of the article, ‘Can the archive restore you?’, is intended to echo that of Nigerian filmmaker Ogwe Inyeka’s short film No Archive Can Restore You (). The article argues that the engagement by the authors of the three works with deeply problematic visual archives has produced significant insights into their construction and the ways in which they represent ‘reality’ and ‘truth’. Each of the three artistic interventions does suggest how even the bleakest archival materials, however, can be used as the basis for activating the restorative potential of the archive. The works discussed are Mpho Khwezi’s A Piece of Paper , Abri de Swardt’s Ridder Thirst and Eva Knopf’s Majubs Reise .
这篇文章旨在促进关于如何处理和处理有问题的档案的日益激烈的辩论。本文分别考察了一位摄影师和两位电影人的三件作品，基于他们与各自档案的艺术互动。他们的作品被带到2019年和2020年由南非威特沃特斯兰德大学(Wits)和约翰内斯堡市场摄影工作室共同主办的非洲重塑年度研讨会上。重塑非洲的中心目标仍然是游说保存、修复和遣返非洲大陆和散居海外的非洲电影人制作的电影。但是，参与者对殖民地和其他种族影响的动态/静态图像档案也越来越感兴趣。这篇文章的主要标题是《档案能恢复你吗?》，意在呼应尼日利亚电影制作人Ogwe Inyeka的短片《No Archive Can Restore You》()。本文认为，这三部作品的作者对存在严重问题的视觉档案的参与，对它们的结构以及它们代表“现实”和“真相”的方式产生了重要的见解。然而，这三种艺术干预都表明，即使是最黯淡的档案材料，也可以作为激活档案修复潜力的基础。讨论的作品有Mpho Khwezi的《一张纸》，Abri de Swardt的《Ridder Thirst》和Eva Knopf的《Majubs Reise》。
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Anant Singh is South Africa’s most prolific film producer. The publication of his memoirs in 2021 occasioned an assessment of this genre in relation to published scholarly research and some other biographies and autobiographies written by contemporary South African filmmakers, radio and television broadcasters. This article mobilizes the Singh story as a framing window through which to make connections with other such works, including studies on the media industry itself, from the early 1980s to 2021. Where autobiographies rarely offer self-reflexive analyses, this article attempts to facilitate a dialogue between different media personalities while simultaneously excavating some hidden transcripts that themselves cast some light on professional practices. The article sketches some of the underlying structural conditions within which the various commentators had to work and on which they comment anecdotally, here examined as latent illustrations of their lived experience.
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Reviewe of: De Sable et de Feu: Le Rève Impossible (Sand and Fire: The Impossible Dream!), Souheil Ben-Barka (2019), Morocco: Jal’s Production and Flat Parioli
回顾:De Sable et De Feu: Le r ve Impossible(沙子与火:不可能的梦想!)，Souheil Ben-Barka(2019)，摩洛哥:Jal的生产和扁平的帕里利
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