Notes Towards an African Orestes

00:00:10 NOTES FOR AN AFRICAN ORESTEIA

00:03:11 Orestes goes in disguise to the Court in Argos

00:06:47 could be hiding the face of Clytemnestra.

00:11:04 Here we are on the road to Kigoma

00:14:17 and where farmers would go now and again to exchange their goods.

00:17:10 First of all, l would like to tell you why l decided

00:19:26 So you can't say "Africa" .

00:21:10 has really brought us democracy

00:23:27 The monstrous forms that nature can take there.

00:26:14 is made, sweeps over Lake Gorgopus

00:29:14 This could be an image of Troy burning.

00:33:36 He has seen too much to still believe in honors.

00:46:38 who has nourished us, and gathers in herself new shoots of life

00:49:08 But as soon as he has killed his mother, the Furies will appear

00:52:44 And these, in fact, represent all the internal contradictions

00:55:26 the goddess of reason

00:57:24 The Furies accuse him in the name of the ancient, archaic, feudal world

00:59:33 Maybe one of us might be the son of a tribal chief.

01:01:43 his coming to the western world would be negative.

01:03:31 So when you talk of Furies

01:05:27 imitate it, in jest, to divert themselves

01:08:02 these tattoos on the face

01:10:13 As you can see, a more modern party is underway.

01:12:57 And its fear is a great patience.