La pyramide humaine = The human pyramid / un film de Jean Rouch.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Rouch, Jean, film director.

Braunberger, Pierre, 1905-1990, film producer.

Icarus Films Home Video, publisher.

Films de la Pléiade (Firm), production company.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Racism--Côte d'Ivoire--Abidjan.

Racism.

Students--Côte d'Ivoire--Abidjan--Attitudes.

Students.

Ethnology--Côte d'Ivoire--Abidjan.

Ethnology.

Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire)--Race relations.

Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire).

Race relations.

Students--Attitudes.

Côte d'Ivoire--Abidjan.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Documentary-style films.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Human pyramid

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Icarus Films, [2017]

Language Note:

French dialogue with English subtitles.

System Details:

DVD-R, NTSC; full screen (1.37:1) presentation.

DVD video

Summary:

Filmed in 1958 and 1959 with a mixed group of final year students in a lycée in Abidjan (the capital of the Ivory Coast), this loosely improvised narrative on the subject of race relations is framed by Rouch's voice on the soundtrack justifying the film because of the real friendships formed among the participants, both black and white, and the fact that for them racism no longer made any sense.

Filmed in 1958 and 1959 with a mixed group of final year students at the Lycée français in Abidjan (the capital of the Ivory Coast), this loosely improvised narrative on the subject of race relations is framed by Rouch's voice on the soundtrack justifying the film because of the real friendships formed among the participants, both black and white, and the fact that for them racism no longer made any sense.

At the Lycee Francais of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Rouch worked with students there who willingly enacted a story about the arrival of a new white girl, Nadine, and her effect on the interactions of interracial relationships between the white colonial French and Black African classmates, all non-actors. Fomenting a dramatic situation instead of repeating one, Rouch extended the experiments he had undertaken in Chronicle of a Summer, including having on-camera student participants view rushes of the film midway through the story, The docu-drama shows how working together to make the film changes their attitude towards each other.

Credits:

Director, Jean Rouch ; producer, Pierre Braunberger ; photography, Louis Mialle, Roger Morilliere ... Jean Rouch ; editor, Marie Joséphe Yoyotte [and others].

Notes:

"Festival del film, Locarno 1961"--Cover

Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.

OCLC:

1079839109