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"A
graceful, epic meditation on people and their living spaces in six countries
of West Africa, this majestic film unfolds poetically around three intricately
intertwined voices that provide different, but interactive interpretations.
A cinematic journeys that provokes critical political questions about perceiving
and representing Third World cultures." |
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Susan Ditta, The National Gallery of Canada |
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"...every
moment of unsmoothness presents a gap, almost a kind of wound, a moment
in which the inevitably consistent rhythm of 24-frame-per-second film projection
is broken, and consequently, a place at which the film's style can open
itself to an observation of the outer world... a film that reverberates
between its subject matter and its cinematic form, and that challenges each
of us to examine the ways in which we think about looking at films, and
other cultures, and at ourselves." |
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Fred Camper, Chicago Reader |
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"a
lyrical, beautiful, engrossing and provacative film" |
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Jenny Perlin, San Francisco Cinematheque |
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"A
sensuous and philosphical journey... Exquisitely photographed, rich in detail
and texture, this film is not essentially a documentary though it contains
elements of documentation. It acts, rather, as a counter-documentary, throwing
into question our formulas for the relationship between fact and truth." |
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Robert Anbian, Film Arts Festival |
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"beautiful
and instructive, a duet between filmmaker and subject, disclosures and enclosures,
which remains perpetually fresh and unpredictable over the film's (length)." |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader |
