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Caméra Afrique and Caméra Arabe / two films by Férid Boughedir.
LIBRA VHS/PAL PN1993.5.A35 C35 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Screen griots
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Africa--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture industry--Africa--History.
- Motion picture industry.
- Motion pictures--Middle East--History.
- Motion picture industry--Middle East--History.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Africa.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Middle East.
- History.
- Middle East.
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (95 min. + 62 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- Other Title:
- Caméra Arabe
- Title on cassette label: Caméra Afrique, Caméra Arabe
- Original title of first selection: Caméra d'Afrique : 20 years of African cinema = 20 ans de cinéma africain
- Original title of second selection : Caméra arabe : al-Sīnimā al-ʻArabīyah al-shābbah : the young Arab cinema
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Connoisseur/Academy Video [distributor], [1995]
- Language Note:
- Narrated in English; spoken French, sub-Saharan languages, and Arabic with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS - PAL.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- PAL
- Summary:
- Two documentary films by the Tunisian director and critic Férid Boughedir which constitute an indispensable introduction to film making in Africa and the Arab world, discussing production, themes, purposes, and bureaucratic and cultural problems encountered. Caméra Afrique, a documentary celebrating 20 years of African film production, presents early film pioneers with film clips and production histories. Caméra Arabe looks at the new Arab cinema of the post-colonial era. It includes interviews with filmmakers from North Africa and the wider Arab worlds and clips from a wide range of key Arab films.
- Contents:
- Caméra Afrique, Tunisia, 1983 (95 min.)
- Caméra Arabe, Tunisia, 1987 (62 min.)
- Participant:
- English commentary, D. Bouchoucha, R. M'Rabet and M. Harrison.
- Interviews (sub-Saharan Africa): Ola Balogun, Souleymane Cisse, Ousmane Sembene, Med Hondo, Paulin Vieyra, Oumarou Ganda (Camera Afrique). Interviews (North Africa and Middle East): Youssef Chahine, Nouri Bouzid, Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina, Abdellatif Ben Ammar, Michel Khleifi, Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud, Omar Amiralay, Borhan Alaouia, Mohamed Malass (Camera Arabe)
- Credits:
- Produced, directed, and written by Ferid Boughedir ; editors, Andreé Davanture (Caméra Afrique), Moufida Tlatli (Caméra Arabe).
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Released as part of the Africa95 project on African cinema, promoted by the British Film Institute through its African and Caribbean Film Unit.
- OCLC:
- 40070924
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