Session sixty-four, Illegal_Cinema

Film screening proposed by Karlos Martinez, followed by discussion.

Africa Addio (Gualtiero Jacopetti & Franco Prosperi, 1966, 140 min).

“The more exploited a man is, the more he is placed on a plane of insignificance. The more he resists, the more he is viewed as a beast. This can be seen in Africa Addio, made by the fascist Jacopetti: the African savages, killer animals, wallow in abject anarchy once they escape from white protection. Tarzan died, and in his place were born Lumumbas and Lobegulas, Nkomos, and the Madzimbamutos, and this is something that neocolonialism cannot forgive. Fantasy has been replaced by phantoms and man is turned into an extra who dies so Jacopetti can comfortably film his execution.”

(Fernando “Pino” Solanas & Octavio Getino: Towards a Third Cinema: Notes and Experiences for the Development of a Cinema of Liberation in the Third World. October, 1969.)

Karlos Martinez (Durango, 1982) I make texts, films and graphic work, and am involved in different ways in cultural projects; but what I do most of all is make sculpture.