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"With
uncanny eloquence, Reassemblage distills sounds and images of Senegalese
villagers and their surroundings to reconsider the premises of ethnographic
filmmaking. By disjunctive editing and a probing narration, this 'documentary'
strikingly counterpoints the authoritative stance of the National Geographic
approach." |
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Laura Thielen |
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"Superbly
crafted and visually exquisite... In its form and content, it critiques
both western science and documentary traditions" |
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Pat Aufderheide, The Village Voice |
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"sweetly
weird... in questioning all the presumption of ethnographic filmmaking" |
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Jim Hoberman, The Village Voice |
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"captures
a glimpse of beauty and death without wallowing in the scenic exoticism
so fatal to the National Geographic format" |
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Kathleen Hulser, The Independent |
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"a
work (that) carries a critique of its own pronouncements and challenges
any investment in pompous profundities" |
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Barbara Kruger, Art Forum |
