Watch nkumi, everyday life FMovies. Short ethnographic documentary showing some everyday life scenes based upon footage shot by director Luc de Heusch in Congo in 1954 reassembled by Damien Mottier (Université Paris Nanterre) and Grace Winter (CINEMATEK).
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Some kids in Brussels play a game based upon objects that were brought back from the Congo and which were used during the Hutereau expedition.
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David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this ethnographic documentary. The film's biggest part...
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A man performs the same ritual every day: he cleans his shoes, dresses up in his shiny blue suit, wears his white gloves and grey hat, and spends his...
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A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from...
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Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his father who was a missionary in Kongo in the early 20th...
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Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War. In 1960, the UN became...
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An investigation of the emotional and economic value of Africa's most lucrative export: filmed poverty. Deep in the interiors of the Congo, Dutch...
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As if they were showing their film to a few friends in their home, the Johnsons describe their trip across the world, which begins in the South...
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In urban America, the bush of Africa, the war zone of the Congo, and in closed nations there are women who are living outside their own cultures,...
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Along an overgrown rail track south of the Zairean town Kisangani, a UN expedition together with a handful of journalists discover “lost”...
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Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of Zaire (now Congo) when he was assassinated in 1961.