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African Art - Films

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African Art  BBC/RM Associates Co-Production; written and directed by Aminatta Forna. Chicago : Public Media Home Vision, 1995.  N7380 .A35 1995  African Art introduces noted experts who explain the importance of reappraising African Art within its own cultural context. Then local Malian inhabitants in the Dogon, a Bamana village, and the walled city of Djenne comment on the function of art and the role of the artist in their society.
Portrait of an artist : Elimo Njau, the antelope-man / URTNA Programme Exchange Center, Nairobi, Kenya ; producer/director, Lyombe Eko.  N7397.6.T343 N538 1992  A portrait of East Africa's best-known artist. The video seeks to illustrate Elimo Njau's role as artist in enabling Africans to return to their ancestral culture. "The African views life as a proverb whose meaning lies in an unraveling of its symbols."--FFH catalog.
Talking stones: Granada Television ; produced and directed by Tony Bulley.  NB1096.6.R5 T24 1992 

 

"Given a place to exhibit, dissuaded from producing 'airport' art and encouraged instead to speak to their ancestors, kept at a distance from the commercializers and Coca Colarizers of art, members of the Shona tribe and itinerant workers from every part of southern Africa have taken to stone sculpture as naturally as to traditional rhythms."--container.
Under the African sun : a tribute to the Black artists of South Africa / a Bop-Broadcasting International Production ; produced by the Right Picture Corporation ; scripted and directed by Gerhard Meyer.  N7392 .U55 1993 Program focuses on the Black artists of South Africa, and how their art has been influenced by the country's social and political struggles, especially apartheid.  7 volumes + guide

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