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Statues Also Die
Les statues meurent aussi
France | 1953 | 30 min | Documentary
Direção: Alain Resnais e Chris Marker
Screenplay: Chris Marker
Cinematography: Ghislain Cloquet
Synopsis
A documentary about Black art becomes an anticolonialist and antiracist manifesto. The film exposes the oppression and destruction of an art and a nation by another nation.
About the directors
Alain Resnais (1922-2014) was a French filmmaker, screenwriter, and editor, renowned for his poetic fictional masterpieces such as Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and L’année dernière à Marienbad (1961). He also directed highly significant documentaries in the history of cinema, including Nuit et brouillard (1955), which is considered one of the greatest documentaries about World War II. Resnais is regarded as one of the key figures of the Nouvelle Vague (French New Wave) and one of the pioneers of European cinematic modernity.
Chris Marker (1921-2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977), and Sans soleil (1983). He is usually associated with the French New Wave that occurred in the late 1950s and 1960s, and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, and Jacques Demy.