Hubert Sauper — Director (4)

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基桑加尼日记 (1998)
Kisangani Diary Douban
other title: Kisangani Diary / Loin du Rwanda
卡罗维发利特别提及奖,巴黎国际影像展最佳纪录片,伦敦同一世界国际电影节唐吉柯德奖,圣彼德堡影展最佳纪录片。讲述卢旺达难民的故事。 After the massacre among Tutsis in 1994, many tens of thousands of Hutus fled to Zaire. Many of them never returned. In March 1997, Hubert Sauper travelled along on a UN train, in search of these 'forgotten' refugees, who were leading a poor existence more than a thousand kilometres from home, victim to famine, disease and attacks by various armed militias. Along the tracks that are overgrown by the rainforest, Sauper leads the spectator to the 'heart of the darkness', the same place where Conrad wrote his novel Heart of Darkness a century ago. The film confronts the audience with the consequences of civil war: chaos and inconceivable suffering. Sauper shows images of emaciated children with large eyes and of silent adults with a gaze that betrays their feelings that all hope has evaporated. We see how photographers and cameramen depict the misery, and we observe the impotence of the international community: time and again, relief runs up against logistical problems. Along an overgrown railtrack south of the Zairen town Kisangani, a UN expedition together with a handfull of journalists discover "lost" refugees. They are eighty thousand Hutus from far away Rwanda, the last survivors of three years of hunger and armed persecution that transpired throughout the vast Congo basin. The Hutu-refugees leave the forest, gathering in two gigantic camps. Hundreads of refugees die every day from diseases and malnutrition The Rwandans are promised repatriation with airplanes out of Kisangani. The film traces those refugees into the heart of the rainforest, and the hopeless attempts to help them.. But only four weeks later, the unprotecteed UN-camps are again attacked by machine-gun fire, deliberately massacred by factions of the rebel army (AFDL) of today's Democratic Republic Congo. Eighty thousand men, women and children disappear once again back into the jungle. Kisangani Diary must be the most extraordinary and passionate documentary I've seen in ages. Had modern cameras entered the Nazi death camps, this is what they might have brought back. Shot at the site of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, this jewel of a film confronts the unspeakable suffering of late 20th century Africa. Although violently angry with the cruelties he finds, director Hubert Sauper speaks in a language that is visual, poetic, and purged of ego. A tour de force of compassion and filmmaking.

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Epicentro (2020)
Epicentro Douban
★ 8.0 25 ratings
于贝尔·苏佩 actor: 奥娜·卓别林 / Fena LeChuck …
other title: 古巴街头
这是对后殖民时代“乌托邦”古巴的一次身临其境的隐喻性描绘。1898年,缅因号在古巴的爆炸至今历历在目,这场大爆炸结束了西班牙在美洲的殖民统治,开启了美利坚帝国时代。与此同时,一个强大的征服工具诞生了:电影宣传。在这部纪录片中,导演索珀与哈瓦那非凡的人民——尤其是被他称为“年轻先知”的哈瓦那儿童——一起探索百年以来电影是如何制造神话并以此进行国际干预,并对时间、帝国主义和电影本体进行了质询。

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We Come as Friends (2015)
We Come as Friends Douban
于贝尔·苏佩 actor: 乔治·克鲁尼 / 希拉里·罗德姆·克林顿
other title: 友谊 / 友谊:后殖民主义在南苏丹
Entente Cordiale intends to illustrate colonisation as a human phenomenon in an explicit manner as well as in a metaphoric sense without suggesting simplified accusations or political propositions. It will not be a historical film since colonisation as well as slave trade are still happening today - in a modified way, a more industrial, massive and more global fashion than a hundred years ago.

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Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
Le Pesadilla de Darwin Douban
于贝尔·苏佩 actor: 于贝尔·苏佩
other title: 达尔文的恶梦 / Le Pesadilla de Darwin
这个故事审视探讨了欧洲对非洲的幕后枪支交易——俄罗斯飞行员把枪支送往非洲,之后把飞机装满鱼飞回欧洲。 这种贸易的危害和后果之一就是武器不断流入非洲大陆所引起的暴力和战争。 如果这个世界的规则是像达尔文所说的“适者生存”,那赞助枪支贸易的资本家就脚踏着非洲人的利益站到了进化阶梯的高端。达尔文主义的鲜明例子。 就像维多利亚湖鲈鱼可预见的灭绝和维多利亚湖自身的死亡一样,非洲人正处于极度的危险之中,尽管他们在他们唯一懂得的途径中谋求生存。 The larger scope of the story explores the gun trade to Africa that takes place under the covers -- Russian pilots fly guns into Africa, then fly fish back out to Europe. The hazards and consequences of this trade are explored, including the pan-African violence propagated by constant flow of weapons into the continent. If it is a "survival of the fittest" world, as Darwin concluded, then the capitalist interests that fund the gun runners are climbing the evolutionary ladder on the backs of the Africans in this stark Darwinian example. Much like the foreseeable extinction of the Lake Victoria perch, and death of Lake Victoria itself, the Africans are in grave jeopardy, even as they survive in the only ways they know how.