{"id":7272,"date":"2018-11-20T05:57:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T11:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackworldcinema.net\/blog\/?p=7272"},"modified":"2025-06-03T00:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T05:28:28","slug":"dark-stars-on-the-trail-of-the-unseen-discovering-the-surreal-the-magical-and-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackworldcinema.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/20\/dark-stars-on-the-trail-of-the-unseen-discovering-the-surreal-the-magical-and-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Stars: on the Trail of the unseen, discovering the surreal, the magical and political."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Black World Cinema Screening
\nSaturday, Nov 23, at Connect South Shore. 6-8pm
\n2226 E 71st St.<\/p>\n

Dark Stars: on the Trail of the unseen, discovering the surreal, the magical and political.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tracking the Pale Fox: Studies on the Dogon<\/strong>\u00a0(1984)
\nDirector: Luc De Heusch
\nPresents the history of research on the Dogon since the famous 1931 expedition of Marcel Griaule, establishing the original expedition in the context of French anthropology at the time. Jean Rouch, celebrated film-maker and less known as an anthropologist on the Dogon, narrates part of the story, and interviews Dogon elders and veteran expedition member Germaine Dieterlan.*<\/span><\/p>\n

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Charleston<\/strong>(1927) France , 17 min
\ndirector: Jean Renoir
\nSynopsis
\n2028 A.D. A story based on the decline of Western Civilisation, in which a black explorer discovers the Charleston being danced by a white aborigine in the ruins of a post-apocalyptic Paris<\/p>\n

Twaaga<\/strong>\u00a0(Invincible)
\nDirector: Cedric Ido
\nCountry: France
\nYear: 2013
\nRunning Time: 30 min.
\nLanguage: French, Arab and Moor\u00e9 with English Subtitles:
\nBurkina Faso in 1985 is a country in the throes of revolution. Manu, a young boy who loves comics, tags along with his big brother Albert. When Albert decides to undergo a magic ritual, Manu realizes there are real powers to rival even those of superheroes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The background and context of the film.\u00a0Tracking the Pale Fox: Studies on the Dogon<\/strong>
\nIn Paris, in 1930, Ahost of luminaries gathered to attend a boxing match showcasing \u201cPanama\u201d Al Brown\u2014an Afro-Panamanian bantamweight and the sport\u2019s first Latino world champion. Boxing was just one of his talents, he had been a jazz singer in Paris and tap-danced in Josephine Baker\u2019s Revue N\u00e8gre. He enlisted Bakers support of this important mission as well.<\/p>\n

The bout was a fund-raiser, and a successful one, yielding more than 100,000 francs for a notable cause: Brown announced that he was fighting \u201cto increase the knowledge about and understanding of Africa.\u201d In particular, the event was in support of an expedition across French Africa, stretching more than five thousand miles from Dakar, Senegal, capital of French West Africa, to Djibouti, capital of French Somaliland. Subvention had already arrived from the French parliament, various other French ministries and institutions, and the Rockefeller Foundation, but this mission\u2014at its core a shopping trip that was to last more than a year and a half\u2014would not be cheap. Every franc counted.<\/p>\n

The Mission ethnographique et linguistique Dakar\u2013Djibouti was led by the entrepreneurial anthropologist Marcel Griaule and included a couple of trained linguists, a botanist, an ethnomusicologist, an official artist, a fellow with expertise in transportation as well as in film and photography, and a handyman who also served as a nurse, mechanic, cobbler, and barber.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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