Western Films About Africa Are Neocolonial Even When They Try Not to Be

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Western Films About Africa Are Neocolonial Even When They Try Not to Be

Attempting to interrogate its own lens, the documentary Stop Filming Us mixes sharp insights with disappointing shortcomings.

via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/648474/stop-filming-us-congo-documentary-colonialism/

Sembène, meanwhile, offered an eviscerating criticism of both, famously accusing them of looking at Africans like insects. Sembène’s opening question to Rouch was: “Will European cinematographers, you for example, continue to make films about Africa once there are a lot of African cinematographers?” Regrettably, they do