 African Studies Home
A Guide to Videos in African Studies
Columbia University Libraries
and
elsewhere at Columbia.
(March 2007)
Compiled by Dr. Yuusuf S. Caruso,
African Studies Department, Columbia University Libraries
Send comments or questions to: caruso@columbia.edu
Most of the video titles listed and summarized here are available at one of two locations: Butler Media Center, 208B Butler Library ; and, Barnard
Media Center, Barnard Library, Barnard College. ***PLEASE NOTE: Access to videos at Columbia University are restricted to persons
with current Columbia IDs and library borrowing privileges.
-
Butler Media Collections, 208B, Butler Reserves, Butler Library: On-site viewing for students & faculty with CUID.
- RESERVES: On-site for all CUID holders or off-site viewing (with prior arrangements) for Columbia faculty and classroom use
only.
- GENERAL: On-site viewing and over night loan periods for CUID holders to view videos off-site.
- For more information, see the LibraryWeb guide to the Butler Media collection.
- Barnard Media Center, Barnard Library, Lehman Hall, Barnard College: Students and faculty with Columbia ID can view videos
on-site. Only Barnard faculty can borrow videos for off-site viewing/classroom use.
Elsewhere:
- At the Music & Arts Library's "Music Video" collection, students and faculty with Columbia ID can view
on-site; only Columbia "officers" can borrow videos off-site.
- At Lehman Reserves, Columbia ID required; one VCR and monitor is available for on-site viewing.
- At the Language Resource Center (formerly: Humanities Media Center or "HMC") in 116B Lewisohn Hall, students and
faculty with Columbia ID can view videos on-site. Students cannot borrow videos off-site. Columbia faculty must register with the Center in order to
borrow videos for classroom or overnight use.
- At Mathematics and Science Libraries, Columbia ID required.
Contents (Titles in alphabetical order)
Africa (Davidson)
Video Summaries and Locations
A.B.C. Africa. Videorecording. MK2 Productions; a film by Abbas Kiarostami; New Yorker Films presents with Abbas Kiarostami and Marin Karmitz; cinematographer, Seifollah Samadian; editor, Abbas Kiarostami; narrators: Abbas Kiarostami, Seifollah Samadian.
-- [United States]: New Yorker Video, [2005].
About 139 minutes in length. In English and Farsi with English subtitles.
Other Title: Abbas Kiarostami, the art of living; Art of living.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2001. Over the course of a 10-day visit to Uganda, Abbas Kiarostami uses his camera to capture and caress the faces of a thousand orphans, many whose parents died of AIDS. Alternately heartbreaking and optimistic.
A.B.C. Africa
Butler Media Reserves, DVD 3718 -or-3887
Africa. Videorecording. Written and presented
by Basil Davidson ; directed by John Percival, Christopher Ralling,
Andrew Harries, and Mick Csaky. -- Boston, MA: Home Vision,
c1984.
Each episode is about 57 minutes in length.
Africa: Different but Equal
Barnard Media & Butler Media Reserves,
VIDEO DT20 .A3 1984, v. 1
"For centuries Africa was ravished by the slave trade, which
has distorted our view of its people. Davidson shows that Africa
gave rise to some of the world's greatest civilizations."
Africa: Mastering a Continent
Barnard Media & Butler Media Reserves,
VIDEO DT20 .A3 1984, v. 1
"Looking closely at three different communities, Davidson
examines the way African peoples carve out an existence in an
often hostile environment."
Africa: Caravans of Gold
Barnard Media & Butler Media Reserves,
VIDEO DT20 .A3 1984, v. 2
"Davidson traces the roots of the medieval gold trade--which
reached from Africa to India, China, and Italy--and examines its
influence on the African continent."
Africa: Kings and Cities
Barnard Media & Butler Media Reserves,
VIDEO DT20 .A3 1984, v. 2
"Kano, Nigeria, is one example of an African kingdom. There,
a king still holds court in his 15th century palace and ancient
rituals continue to command the respect of the people."
Africa: The Bible and the Gun
Barnard Media & Butler Media Reserves,
VIDEO DT20 .A3 1984, v. 3
"The slave trade decimated the African population and tore
the fabric of society. Then new kinds of interlopers came:
explorers, missionaries, and Cecil Rhodes."
Africa: This Magnificent African Cake
Barnard Media & Butler Media Reserves,
VIDEO DT20 .A3 1984, v. 3
"A 30-year 'scramble for Africa,' begun in the 1880s,
dramatically changed the continent. Nearly all of Africa became
subject to colonial rule until World War II."
Africa: The Rise of Nationalism
Barnard Media & Butler Media Reserves,
VIDEO DT20 .A3 1984, v. 4
"Davidson charts Africa's struggle for independence,
focusing on the final collapse of the White minority in Zimbabwe
and on apartheid in South Africa."
Africa: The Legacy
Barnard Media & Butler Media Reserves,
VIDEO DT20 .A3 1984, v. 4
"Davidson looks at Africa in the aftermath of colonial rule.
Interviews with political leaders illuminate the problems and
successes of Africa today."
Africa, a history denied. (Time-Life's Lost
Civilizations) Videorecording. Produced by Time-Life Video
and Television. -- Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Video and Television
(distributor), c1995. Executive producer, Joel Westbrook ; series
producer, Jason Williams ; producer, David Dugan ; coordinating
producer, William Morgan. Sam Waterston, narrator. Filmed in
Zimbabwe and Tanzania.
About 48 minutes in length.
A history of theories and white fantasies surrounding Great
Zimbabwe and the gold trade in East Africa. Features on-screen
comments by Peter Garlake, Stanlake Samkange, Michael Horton, and
Ali A. Mazrui. The film reviews the theories of
archaeologists--past and present. Actors are seen portraying: white
adventurers and archaeologists; Great Zimbabwe priests, kings, and
commoners; and, Swahili rulers and foreign traders. There are also
several speculative "re-enactments" of rituals and dances
performed at Great Zimbabwe. The film ends with some reflections on
the bizarre "Lost City" amusement park in modern South
Africa.
Time-Life's Lost Civilizations: Africa, A History
Butler Media Reserves,
VIDEO DT14 .A385 1995g
Africa, an introduction. Videorecording. BFA
Educational Media ; written and produced by Wayne Mitchell. -- St.
Louis, MO: Phoenix Learning Group, c1992. (*Originally produced in
1981.)
About 22 minutes in length.
"Explores Africa's diverse cultures and geographic
features. Also examines the impact of modernization and
urbanization on the African continent."
Africa, an introduction
Barnard Media, GF701 .A57 1992
Africa, a new look. Videorecording.
International Film Foundation, Inc.; written and produced by Sam
Bryan; narrated by Athmani Magoma. -- United States: The
Foundation, c1981.
About 27 minutes in length.
Presents a sampling of the people of Africa today: teachers and
students, politicians and artists, business people, farmers,
fishermen, and factory workers. Includes scenes of primary schools
and universities, commercial and family farms, religious services,
and a political rally.
Africa, a new look (1981)
Barnard Media, DT30.5 .A33 1981
Africa: open for business. Videorecording. Producer/director, Carol Pineau. [S.l.]: Carol Pineau, c2006.
About 58 minutes in length. DVD format.
Profiles ten entrepreneurs from ten different African countries who tell their own stories about how they overcame obstacles to build successful businesses.
Africa: open for business (2006)
Butler Media Reserves, DVD 5440
Africa, search for common ground.
Videorecording. A production of Common Ground Productions, The
Media Peace Centre, Ubuntu Television and Film ; series producers,
Jonathan S. Deull, Mark J. Kaplan. -- [Cape Town, South Africa]:
Common Ground Productions, c1997.
Each program is about 26 minutes in length. The video programs are
part of a television series profiling formal efforts by various
African countries to peacefully resolve contemporary conflicts.
Each of the films in the program is introduced by John Matshikiza
and others from a television studio in Cape Town, South Africa.
Africa, search for common ground, Program 3: Rwanda &
Burundi
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEO DT450.435 .A375 1997
The first film in this program follows the efforts of the
International Tribunal for Rwanda to bring the perpetrators of the
genocide to justice, an arduous, complicated process which has not
gone smoothly. The second film examines Rwanda and Burundi where
hate radio has been used to incite ethnic violence. But now in
Burundi, radio is also being utilized as a means of building
understanding and promoting reconciliation.
Africa, search for common ground, Program 4: Mozambique &
Angola
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEO DT1182 .A375 1997
The two films presented in this program examine the results of
civil war and the efforts made toward national reconciliation in
Mozambique (Cleansing the past) and Angola (Rivers of fear).
Africa, search for common ground, Program 8: Mali &
Lesotho
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEO JQ1879.A15 A375 1997
The first film in this program reviews the events since the 1991
coup d'état in Mali, including an interview with Amadou
Toumani Touré held in May 1997. The second film examines
the social and environmental impact of the dam projects of the
Lesotho Highlands Development Authority and the role of the
Lesotho Council of Non-governmental Organizations.
Africa, search for common ground, Program 9: S.A. between
confession and prosecution
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEO JQ1981 .S688 1997
The film presented in this program follows former policeman,
Wouter Mentz, who has applied to the South African Truth and
Reconciliation Commission for amnesty for the part he played in 21
politically motivated murders. Can the truth heal his wounds and
those of his victims? We witness his testimony before the
Commission, and his struggle to find a new life in the new South
Africa.
Africa, search for common ground, Program 11: Algeria, the life
and death of Algerian journalists
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEO PN4748.A4 A375 1997
The film presented in this program examines the impact of the free
press movement in Algeria ("Mouvement des journalistes
algériens"), using archival footage recorded between
1988 and 1989 by Merzak Allouache.
Africa, search for common ground, Program 12: Three Women in
Eritrea & Wangari Maathai in Kenya
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEO JQ2945 .A91 A375 1997
The first film in this program highlights the wartime experiences
of women in one Eritrean family in Asmara and the issue of
women's rights in an independent Eritrea. The second film
profiles Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt movement, a
tree-planting campaign organized by women in Kenya. Maathai's
place in Kenyan opposition politics is emphasized.
African art, women, history: the Luba people of central
Africa. Videorecording. Created and produced by Linda
Freeman ; executive producer, Lorraine E. Hall ; written and
directed by David Irving; narrated by Dr. Mary Nooter Roberts ;
editor, Tom Campbell; director of photography, Mike Harlow ;
original music, Joshua Stone. African American artists series. --
Chappaqua, NY : L & S Video, c1998.
About 28 minutes in length.
In central Africa, as elsewhere, memory sustains the identity of
a people. This documentary is about Luba art and the relationship
between women art, politics, religion, and history. Using artifacts
from a 1996 exhibition at the Museum for African Art in New York --
"Memory: Luba art and the making of history," as well as
photos and color film footage, Mary Nooter Roberts discusses major
aspects of Luba art, focussing on the Luba "lukasa"
(memory board), other objects, and female body scarification.
African art, women, history:
the Luba people
Butler Media Reserves,
VIDEO N7397 K83 A37
The African Burial Ground: an American
discovery. Videorecording. Written by Christopher Moore ;
executive producer, J. Peter Glaws, III ; produced and directed by
David Kutz ; produced by Kutz Television Inc. for the United States
General Services Administration ; [narrators], Ruby Dee, Ossie
Davis.
About 28 minutes for each videocassette, organized into 4
programs.
Explores the history and archeological excavation of a burial
ground for African slaves discovered in lower Manhattan Island, New
York, during construction of Federal office building in the summer
of 1991. Relates also the effect of the discovery on undertstanding
the role of Afro-Americans in colonial American life.
African Burial Ground, The
Barnard Media & Butler Media Reserves,
VIDEO F128.9 .N3 A27 1994g
African Jim, or Jim comes to Jo'burg.
Videorecording. Produced by Warrior Films ; director, Donald
Swanson ; producer, Eric Rutherford ; music performed by the
African Inkspots and the Jazz Maniacs. South African cinema
from the 'Fifties' -- Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada: Villon Films, [1998]
About 60 minutes in length.
Originally filmed by Warrior Films of Johannesburg, South
Africa, in 1949; known in South Africa as the first all-black
feature film. "Jim leaves rural South Africa to find work in
Johannesburg and ends up finding romance and a successful
career."
African Jim
Butler Media Reserves,
VIDEO PN1997.A31162 1998g
The Africans, a triple heritage.
Videorecording. A co-production of WETA-TV and BBC-TV ; produced by
Peter Bates; written and presented by Ali A. Mazrui. -- Chicago,
Ill.: Annenberg/CPB Project, c1986.
Each episode is about 60 minutes in length.
Africans: New Gods
Barnard & Butler Media,
VIDEO DT14.A3753 1986g, Cassette 1
"The roles of Christian missionaries, Western secularism,
Muslim sects, Egyptian pharaohs, and native religions are
discussed in visits to Senegal, Zaire, and Egypt."
Africans: Tools of Exploitation
Barnard & Butler Media,
VIDEO DT14.A3753 1986g, Cassette 2
"This program traces the colonial economic legacy, the
development of slavery, and European control of Africa's
natural resources, with special attention to the roles played by
Belgium and Great Britain."
Africans: New Conflicts
Barnard & Butler Media,
VIDEO DT14.A3753 1986g, Cassette 3
"Urbanization, warrior traditions, European-created national
boundaries, the Islamic jihad tradition, and nationalist movements
are problems of Africa's post-colonial period, examined in
this episode."
Africans: In Search of Stability
Barnard & Butler Media,
VIDEO DT14.A3753 1986g, Cassette 4
"In a continent where 70 coups have taken place in the last
25 years, the question of governing effectively is critical. This
segment compares African military regimes, one-party states,
Marxism in Mozambique, and the styles of the presidents of
Tanzania and Zaire."
Africans: The Nature of a Continent
Barnard & Butler Media,
VIDEO DT14.A3753 1986g, Cassette 5
"Geography's influence on history is the topic of this
episode which explores the roles that water, desert, and
equatorial climate have played in developing African culture and
civilization."
Africans: A Legacy of Lifestyles
Barnard & Butler Media,
VIDEO DT14.A3753 1986g, Cassette 6
"What constitutes 'family' in African culture? This
segment examines matrilineal, patrilineal, and polygamous
traditions as well as the impact of modern cities on family
ties."
Africans: A Garden of Eden in Decay?
Barnard & Butler Media,
VIDEO DT14 .A3753 1986g, Cassette 7
"More than 70 million Africans suffer from malnutrition while
their countries export food to Europe. Economic and agricultural
failures and successes are examined in Algeria, Ghana, and
Zimbabwe."
Africans: A Clash of Cultures
Barnard & Butler Media,
VIDEO DT14 .A3753 1986g, Cassette 8
"In every area of life -- dress, behavior, law, worship, and
language -- Africans have a triple heritage
("traditional", Islamic, & "Western") that
often sends conflicting signals. The African struggle to evolve
new, effective, and essentially African ways of doing things is
the topic of this episode."
Africans: Global Africa
Barnard & Butler Media,
VIDEO DT14.A3753 1986g, Cassette 9
"Africa's role in international politics and economics,
from UN participation to cobalt production and the political
crisis in South Africa, is the focus of this concluding episode.
Other issues include the International Monetary Fund, food aid,
and tourism."
Afrique, je te plumerai = Africa, I'm going to
fleece you. Videorecording. Un film de Jean-Marie Teno;
écrit, produit réalisé et raconté par
Jean-Marie Teno. Library of African cinema series. Filmed in
Cameroon. French dialogue; English subtitles.
About 88 minutes in length.
"A compelling and sardonic essay on the history of
colonialism in Cameroon, and by extension, on the African
continent. Focuses on historical as well as contemporary European
cultural domination, particularly in the publishing and media
industry."
Afrique, je te plumerai
Barnard, VIDEO DT572 .A37 1992g
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEORES00074
Ainsi meurent les anges. Videorecording. M. sa Productions et L'Institut national de l'audiovisuel (France) présentent un film écrit et réalisé par Moussa Sene Absa; producteur délégué, Moussa Sene Absa; music, Aminata Naar Fall; editing, Pascale Chavance, Josette Peyrebonne. -- San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, c2001.
About 57 minutes in length. In French and Wolof, with English subtitles. VHS format
Originally produced in 2001. "Mory [is] a troubled Senegalese poet living outside Paris with his French wife and their children. We watch his marriage fall apart under cross cultural pressures, specifically his father’s demand that he take a second wife in Senegal. Homeless in winter, separated from his children, his poems scattered over a Paris street, Mory returns to Senegal, penniless and with uncertain prospects. At the same time, black-and-white sequences reveal the psychological origins of Mory’s present malaise."
Ainsi meurent les anges
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEORES 00530
Alagba--a water spirit masquerade and
Chief chief! Videorecording. Directed and edited
by Jane Thorburn; narrated by Sokari Douglas Camp; advisor, Robin
Horton; camera and sound, Jane Thorburn, Mark Lucas. -- London :
After Image, Ltd, c1995.
About 73 minutes in length. In English and Ijo language, with
English subtitles.
Contents: Alagba: a water spirit masquerade (41 min.) -- Chief
Chief! (32 min.). In the first of these two films, Sokari Douglas
Camp, a Nigerian woman sculptor who lives in London, explores her
family's cultural roots through participation in the 1994
masquerade festivals of the Kalabari of southeastern Nigeria. The
religious, artistic, and other cultural aspects of the Kalabari
masquerade are examined in detail, with live scenes from the
festivals at Buguma, near Port Harcourt, and interviews with the
historian Robin Horton and other members of the all-male Ekine
Society. In the second film, Camp's two brothers are installed
as Kalabari chiefs in 1994 at Buguma. The history of chiefs and the
ceremonies are discussed by Horton and others. The Douglas family
preparations and parts of the installation ceremonies are
featured.
Alagba & Chief Chief!
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEO DT515.45 .I35 A43 1995g
Alan Paton's beloved country.
Videorecording. Director, Catherine Meyburgh. -- Vancouver, B.C. :
Villon Films, [1999]
About 54 minutes in length.
A documentary film on the South African author.
Alan Paton's beloved country
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEORES 01177
Allah Tantou = A la grace de Dieu = God's
will. Un film écrit et réalisé par
David Achkar. Library of African cinema. -- San Francisco, CA:
California Newsreel, 1991.
About 62 minutes in length. In French and Soussou, with English
subtitles.
Through home movies, old newsreels, letters and fictional
reconstruction of imprisonment, this film examines the life of
Marof Achkar, the filmmaker's father, a diplomat under the
Sekou Touré regime, who later disappeared into the Guinean
gulag. The film re-evaluates the turbulent decade of African
independence and discusses its relevance to the new political order
on the continent.
Allah Tantou
Barnard Media, VIDEO DT543.822 .A42 1991g
Allister Haddon Sparks, author: The mind of South
Africa: book review. Videorecording. -- (S.l.): C-SPAN:
Distributed by C-SPAN Archives at Purdue University, c1990.
About 60 minutes in length.
Allister Sparks
Lehman Reserves, Z1035.A1 B66 05/01/90
Amandla!: a revolution in four-part harmony.
Videorecording/DVD. Kwela Productions in association with Bomb
Films, HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films, The Ford Foundation and the
South African Broadcasting Corporation ; producers, Desirée
Markgraaff, Lee Hirsh, Sherry Simpson Dean ; director, Lee Hirsh ;
cinematographers, Clive Sacke, Ivan Leathers, Brand Jordaan ;
editor, Johanna Demetrakas. -- Santa Monica, Calif.: Artisan Home
Entertainment, [2003], c2002.
About 103 minutes in length.
Features: Vusi Mahlasela, Jeremy Cronin, Hugh Masekela, Miriam
Makeba, Sophie Mgcina, Dolly Rathebe, Sifiso Ntuli, Abdullah
Ibrahim, Duma Ka Ndlovu. "Tells the story of black South
African freedom music and the central role it played against
apartheid. Specifically considers the music that sustained and
galvanized blacks for more than 40 years. Focuses on the
struggle's spiritual dimension named for the Xhosa word for
'power'. An uplifting story of human courage, resolve and
triumph."
Amandla!
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEORES01412; and, DVD 2150
The ancient Africans. Videorecording. Directed
and photographed by Sam Bryan ; presented by Julien Bryan and the
International Film Foundation ; narrators, Athmani Magoma, Edmund
Lyndeck. -- New York, NY: International Film Foundation, 199-?
[1970]. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1970.
About 27 minutes in length.
Animated drawings, maps, and pictures of art objects from six
museums are intercut with location photography of the Kush and Axum
areas to show life today in the ancient Sudanic kingdoms and in
Benin. Includes scenes of the stone walls of Zimbabwe.
The ancient Africans
Barnard Media, VIDEO DT14 .A6 1990g
Angano, angano: nouvelles de Madagascar. Par
Marie-Clemence et César Paes ; direction de production,
Marie-Clemence Blanc-Paes ; réalisation, César Paes.
Library of African cinema. -- San Francisco, CA: California
Newsreel, c1989.
About 64 minutes in length. In Malagasy and French, with English
subtitles.
Venerable, contemporary storytellers recount the founding myths
of Malagasy culture: the creation of man and woman, the origin of
rice cultivation, the reason for animal sacrifice. The tales flow
into and out of stunning scene of Malagasy life which give birth to
the stories and which they in turn explain.
Angano, angano
Barnard Media, VIDEO GR360.M2 A6 1989
The Ashanti kingdom. Videorecording. A
presentaton of Films for the Humanities & Sciences ; Image Sud
Nord ; directed by N'Gouan Ano Steve. -- Princeton, N.J.: Films
for the Humanities, c1992.
14 minutes only.
African Studies: The Ashanti Kingdom
Butler Media, VIDEO 00767
Atumpan, the talking drums of Ghana.
Videorecording. Mantle Hood; Institute of Ethnomusicology,
University of California, Los Angeles in cooperation with African
Studies Center, UCLA; School of Music and Drama, Institute of
African Studies, University of Ghana; filmed and recorded by Mantle
Hood.
About 43 minutes in length.
"Documentary about West African ceremonial drums. Explains
the different uses for each drum and who may use them as well as
showing how they are made. Also shown are some of the dances
performed to the beat of the drums."
Atumpan, the talking drums of Ghana
Music VIDEO VC276
Bahia, Africa in the Americas. Videorecording.
Produced, written and translated by Geovanni Brewer. -- Berkeley,
CA.: University of California, Extension Media Center, 1988.
About 58 minutes in length.
The central roles of music and dance in Afro-Brazilian
religions, including Umbanda.
Bahia, Africa in the Americas
Music VIDEO VC 226
A Bamako, les femmes sont belles.
Videorecording. Un film de Christiane Succab-Goldman ;
présenté par La Sept ARTE-ISKRA ; image, Pierre
Boffety ; son, Michel Faure ; musique, Mamadou Diabate et al. --
Arcueil, France : ISKRA ; Vancouver, B.C. : Distributed by Villon
Films, c1995.
About 65 minutes in length. In French, Bambara, and other African
languages, with English subtitles.
In Bamako, the capital of Mali, West Africa, women of various
social backgrounds discuss their memories of the past and their
lives in the present. The politics of gender, marriage, education,
development, human rights, and female circumcision in urban and
rural Mali are all highlighted. Seydou Keita, the well-known Malian
photographer, displays some of his older black and white portraits
of Malian women as a complement to some of the stories that the
women tell.
A Bamako, les femmes sont belles
Butler Media Reserves,
VIDEO HQ1813.5 .A3 1995g
Battle of Algiers. Videorecording. Story and
sceenplay, Franco Solinas and Gillo Pontecorvo; edited by Mario
Serandrei and Mario Morra; produced by Antonio Musi; directed by
Gillo Pontecorvo. -- New York, N.Y. : Axon Video Corporation,
1988.
About 125 minutes in length. French and Arabic dialogue, English
subtitles.
"A dramatic re-enactment of Algeria's fight for
independence From France, covering the period from
1954-1962."
Battle of Algiers, The
Barnard Media, VIDEO DT295 .B37 1988
Beauty and the beast: two Igbo masquerades.
Videorecording. Camera and narration, Herbert M. Cole; producer,
Karen Morell; technical director, Jim Pease; research assisted by
Alexander Attah; (presented by) University of Washington. African
encounters. -- Seattle: Instructional Media Services, University of
Washington, [1991], c1985.
About 31 minutes in length.
Two masquerades, an Ekeleke and an Okoroshi festival, videotaped
in the Igbo village-group of Agwa, Nigeria. Research in 1983. On
this copy, there is no narration until near the end of the
film.
Beauty and the beast: two Igbo masquerades
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEO DT515.45 .I33 B43 1991
Bei den Buschnegern in Südwest.
Schmalfilm-Schrank / Unsere Afrikareise. Peter
Kubelka. -- Amsterdam : Nederlands Filmmuseum, [2001]
About 16 minutes in total length. VHS (PAL)
"Bei den Buschnegern in Südwest" is about 4
minutes and is a silent, black & white film. "Unsere
Afrikareise" is about 12 minutes, originally produced in 1966,
and is in color. These are "experimental films" that show
images of Africa as perceived by Europeans.
Bei den Buschnegern in Südwest & Unsere
Afrikareise
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEORES 00261
Black Dju!. Videorecording. Une production
presentent Jani Thiltges & Claude Waringo ; une coproduction
Samsa Film (Luxembourg), Saga Film (Belgique), RTBF (Television
belge), Vermedia (Portugal) ; direction, Pol Cruchten ; direction
de production, Françoise Vercheval ; scénario, Frank
Feitler ; musique, Andre Mergenthaler ; image, Daniel Barrau ;
montage, Denise Vindevogel. -- New York, NY : ArtMattan
Productions, 1995.
About 80 minutes in length. In Portuguese and French with English
subtitles.
Videocassette release of the motion picture made in 1995. Cast
includes: Manu Dibango, Richard Courcet, Patrick Flora-Praxo, Adama
Kouyaie, Philippe Leotard, Cesaria Evora. 'From the sun of the
Cape Verde Islands, its a very big step to rainy, land-locked
Luxembourg, but that's the journey Dju Dele Dibonga takes to
track down his dad, whose yearly visits and monthly guest worker
checks have stopped. Dju has to face overzealous immigration cops
and an outraged police lieutenant who eventually joins in the hunt,
becoming Dju's partner in this tale of love and
friendship.'
Black Dju!
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEO PN1997 .B575 1995g
Black girl = La noire de... Videorecording. Filmi Domirev Dakar; d'après une nouvelle de Ousmane Sembene; photography, Christian Lacoste; editor, André Gaudier. Plus, Borom sarret = The wagoner. Un film de Ousmane Sembene. -- [United States]: New Yorker Video, 2005.
About 80 minutes in length. In French, with optional English subtitles.
See also: Borom sarret below.
DVD release of the 1965 and 1964 motion pictures. See also: New Yorker videocassette version. 1. In La noire de ..., a Senegalese maid goes to the Riviera with her employers and gains a new perspective on what it means to be African outside of Africa. A story of exile and despair. Cast: Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinck, Momar Nar Sene, Robert Fontaine. 2. In Borom Sarret, the film follows a cart driver as he meets an unfortunate array of people in Dakar. Cast: Ly Abdoulaye, Albourah.
Black girl = La noire de...
[+ Borom sarret]
Barnard Media, DVD PN1997 .N657 2005g
Black girl (1965)
Barnard Media, VIDEO PN1997 .N657 1965g
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEORES 01613
Blaine Harden, author: Africa, dispatches from a fragile
continent: book review. Videorecording. -- (S.l.): C-SPAN:
Distributed by C-SPAN Archives at Purdue University, c1990.
About 60 minutes in length.
Blaine Harden
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Blood and sand: war in the Sahara. A report by
Sharon I. Sopher. Videorecording. Produced & directed by Sharon
I. Sopher ; written by Sharon Sopher, Peter Kinoy. A production of
Developing News, Inc. and the Television Laboratory at
WNET/Thirteen. -- New York, NY : Sharon Sopher Productions,
c1982.
About 52 minutes in length.
"The film provides the first Western coverage of the war in
the Western Sahara. Morocco is trying to maintain its occupation
despite the opposition of local people (although many of them have
fled to refugee camps in Algeria) and the disruption of the
Moroccan economy. The United States has supported Morocco
diplomatically and with arms sales during the Carter and Reagan
administrations despite human rights concerns and the support for
the Western Sahara inhabitants by many other countries."
Blood and Sand: War in the Sahara
Butler Media, VIDEO DT346 .S7 B6 1982g
Boesman & Lena. Videorecording. Kino
International, Pathe Image Production and Primedia Pictures ;
producers, François Ivernel, Pierre Rissient ; written and
directory by John Berry ; cinematographer, Alain Choquart ; editor,
Jeanne Moutard. -- New York : Kino International : [distributor]
Kino on Video, [2001], c1999.
About 84 minutes in length.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999 and based on the
Athol Fugard play "Boesman & Lena". Examines the
devastating effects of racism on the human spirit through the
progress of one couple's life together under Apartheid, as they
are pushed from the bucolic Eden of South African farmlands into a
makeshift shelter on the mudflats near Cape Town. Cast includes:
Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, Willie Jonah.
Boesman & Lena
Butler Media, VIDEO00648
Boma-Tervuren, le voyage. Videorecording.
Director, Francis Dujardin. -- New York : ArtMattan Productions,
1999.
About 54 minutes in length. A documentary in French with English
subtitles.
The film revisits the extraordinary and tragic saga of 267
Congolese men and women brought to Brussels for the 1897
World's Fair. After a four month journey, they are exhibited
before a million visitors. Subjected to the crushing gaze of the
"Whites" and the cold climate, many fell prey to disease
and some even lost their lives. The dead were hastily dispatched to
a common grave, sparking a fierce debate in Belgian society. One
hundred years later, Congolese compatriots return to the scene and
question the "Whites" of today on the incredible story of
that 'human zoo'."
Boma-Tervuren, le voyage
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Bopha! = Arrest! Videorecording. Produced and
directed by Daniel Riesenfeld ; camera, Roger Harrid, Brian Tilly ;
narrator, Sidney Poitier. -- Vancouver, Canada: Villon Films,
[c1991]
About 59 minutes in length.
Originally produced by DJR in 1986. "The Earth Players
production of Percy Mtwa's Bopha! was produced at the Market
Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa." Cast includes: Aubrey
Moalosi, Aubrey Redebe, Sydney Khumalo. Bopha! depicts South
Africa's dreaded black police force, the tool of apartheid.
Through the play the audience sees the reality and effects of South
Africa's apartheid. This film includes live footage of the
black force in action.
Bopha!
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Borom sarret = The wagoner. Videorecording. Un film de Sembene Ousmane ; director and writer, Sembene Ousmane ; photographer, Christian Lacoste ; editor, Andre. Gaudier. -- [New York] : Released by New Yorker Films, [2000?]
About 20 minutes in length. VHS format. In Wolof and French with English subtitles.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963. A cart-taxi driver goes to the city of Dakar to earn a living. Working for free
out of sympathy for other poverty-stricken people, and taken advantage of by a dishonest city-dweller, he loses first his money and then his cart.
Borom sarret
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Ça twiste à Poponguine.
Videorecording. Une coproduction Cámeras Continentales,
France 2, RTS ; un film de Moussa Sene Absa ; director of
photography, Dominique Gentil ; editor, Rose Evans-Decraene ;
music, Madou Diabate. -- San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel,
c1993.
About 90 minutes in length. In French with English subtitles.
A coming of age story set in a remote Senegalese beachside
village during the week before Christmas, 1964, where the local
teenage boys are divided into rival cultural camps. The
"Ins" ("Inseparables") style themselves after
French pop stars, attend school, have all the girls--but no record
player. Their rivals, the "Kings," style themselves after
African-American blues legends, they work as fishermen, don't
have any girls--but they do have a record player.
Ça twiste à Poponguine
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Camp de Thiaroye. Videorecording.
Société nouvelle de promotion
cinématographique ; scenario, dialogue et
réalisation, Sembène Ousmane, Thierno Faty Sow ;
director, Papawongue Mbengue. (Director of photography, Ismail
Lakhdar Hamina ; editor, Kahena Attia-Riveill ; music, Ismail
Lô.) -- New York: New Yorker Films Video (Distributor),
c1998.
About 152 minutes in length. In French and Wolof, with English
subtitles.
A dramatization of a historical event. "African soldiers,
returning home after fighting in World War II, are massacred in a
dispute over pay."
Camp de Thiaroye
Barnard Media: VIDEO PN1997 .C355 1988g
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Carnet d'expulsions de Saint-Bernard à Bamako
& Kayes. Videorecording. Un film réalisé
par Philippe Baque, Arlette Girardot. -- France: L'yeux
ouverts, c1997.
About 54 minutes in length. In French, with some interviews in an
unidentified African language with French subtitles.
A documentary on the expulsion of undocumented Africans from the
Church Saint-Bernard in Paris. The undocumented Africans are
interviewed about their experience and their lives after their
return to their country of origin, Mali.
Carnet d'expulsions de Saint-Bernard à Bamako &
Kayes
Barnard Media: VIDEO JV7925 .C37 1997g
Changing this country: the testimony of four South
African workers. Produced by the International Labour
Organisation. -- Washington, DC: ILO, 1988.
About 58 minutes in length.
COSATU and South African women workers are the main focus of
this film.
Changing this country
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Chef! ; La tête dans les nuages.
Videorecording. Deux films du Raphia ; filmé, produit et
réalisé par Jean-Marie Teno. -- [San Francisco, CA :
California Newsreel ; 1999]
"Chef!" is about 61 minutes in length.
"La tête dans les nuages" is about 35 minutes in
length.
Both films are in French with English subtitles.
In "Chef!", the director visits his ancestral village
in western Cameroon to film the dedication of a monument to his
relative, the local king, when he realizes that the celebration is
also for President Paul Biya and his party. The film then explores,
through interviews, the problems of one-man rule, from the village
to the city, focussing on a variety of human rights issues.
"La tete" (originally produced in 1994) examines the
impact of an unaccountable government and economic mismanagement on
the people of Yaoundé.
Chef! et La tête dans les nuages
Butler Media Reserves, VIDEO JQ3529.A15 C44 1999g
Chinua Achebe: Africa's voice.
Videorecording. A Trident Communications production. Written and
directed by David Akinde ; producers, David Akinde, Cyril Ibe ;
editor, David Akinde ; narrated by Marshall Bean ; interviewer,
Cyril Ibe. -- Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities &
Sciences, c1999.
About 61 minutes in length.
This program analyzes the impact Chinua Achebe and his writings
have had on world literature, as well as his influence as an editor
and a spokesman for a generation of African writers. Dr. Achebe,
professors Abiola Irele and Gerald Graff, and Charles Larson,
editor of the anthology Under African Skies, discuss the
characterization, social implications, and levels of interpretation
of Things Fall Apart. Vital concepts indigenous to the
Ibos of southeastern Nigeria such as oral culture, reincarnation,
and negotiation concepts essential to a deep understanding of the
novel are also presented.
Chinua Achebe:
Africa's voice
Barnard Media VIDEO PR9387.9.A3 Z463 1999g
Chinua Achebe: the importance of stories.
Videorecording. A video by Cambiz A. Khosravi. Narrated by Michelle
Willingham and John R. Le Fever. -- New York: Cinema Guild,
c1996.
About 57 minutes in length.
An interview with the first great African novelist writing in
English, the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. He discusses his
personal views as an African and how his identity has shaped his
writing.
Chinua Achebe:
the importance of stories
Butler Media Reserves VIDEO PR9387.9.A3 Z464 1996
Chocolat. Videorecording. Alain Belmondo et
Gérard Crosnier ; Marin Karmitz, MK2 ; un film de Claire
Denis ; co-producers, Cinémanuel, MK2 Productions, Cerito
Films, La S.E.P.T., Caroline Productions, Le F.O.D.I.C. Cameroun,
Wim Wenders Produktion Berlin, TFI Films Production ; director,
Claire Denis ; writer, Claire Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau ; music,
Abdullah Ibrahim ; director of photography, Robert Alazraki. --
[New York] : Orion Home Video, [1990], c1988.
About 105 minutes in length. In French, with English subtitles.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1989. The cast
includes: Giulia Boschi, Isaach de Bankole, François Cluzet,
Cecile Ducasse, Mireille Perrier. A young woman returns to Cameroon
to trace her past. Soon the sights, sounds and smells sweep her
back to her childhood and memories of the people who populated her
youth.
Chocolat
Butler Media, VIDEO DT571.F73 C4 1990g
Clando = Clandestine. Videorecording. Un film
de Jean-Marie Teno ; produit et realise par Jean-Marie Teno.
Library of African cinema. -- San Francisco, CA: California
Newsreel, c1996. Letterbox format. French and Wolof dialogue;
English subtitles.
About 96 minutes in length.
Sobgui, a former computer programmer, drives a
"clando" cab in Douala, Cameroon's streets. He is
clandestine, not just because his cab is unlicensed, but because he
is hiding from his past. When a radical political group involves
him a revenge slaying of an informer, Sobgui knows that it is time
to get out of Douala. He gets his chance when he is asked to find a
wealthy villager's son in Germany. The film represents a
dilemma facing educated Africans: whether to work to change the
autocratic regimes at home or seek their fortunes abroad. Cast:
Paulin Fodouop, Caroline Redl.
Clando
Barnard Media, VIDEO PN1997 .C55 1996g
Chronicle of a genocide foretold.
Videorecording. Written and directed by Daniele Lacourse, Yvan
Patry ; produced by Alter-Cine, Inc. and the National Film Board of
Canada ; executive producers, Don Haig, Yvan Patry ; camera,
William Turnley ; editing, Nick Hector ; sound, Stephane Poulin. --
New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1996.
About 141 minutes in length (in three parts). In French, English,
and Kinyarwanda, with English translation and subtitles.
"Fifty years after the Holocaust, the world allowed another
genocide to occur. In April 1994, the international community,
including the United States, sat by and watched as 800,000 people
(mostly Tutsi) were massacred. Today, Rwanda remains torn by ethnic
killings. This three- part documentary features film diaries and
commentary from Rwandan survivors and activists (including Andre
Sibomana, priest and journalist), a Belgian UN peacekeeper, and
Alison Des Forges, historian.& |
