Les statues meurent aussi
/
Las estatuas también mueren
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Statues also Die
director:
Chris Marker
/
Alain Resnais
/
Ghislain Cloquet
playwright:
Chris Marker
actor:
Jean Négroni
/
François Mitterrand
/
Pope Pius XII
/
Sugar Ray Robinson
genre:
Documentary
region:
France
language:
French
length: 30m
release date:
1953-05-01
(Release)
IMDb: tt0046365
Les statues meurent aussi
overview
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.