Statues Also Die
1953 · 30 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 1,438 VOTES · DIR. Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Ghislain Cloquet
Overview
Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the African in the anthropology museum while Greek or Egyptian art are in the Louvre?", the directors expose and criticize the lack of consideration for African art. The film was censored in France for eight years because of its anti-colonial perspective.
Dialogue Timeline — 390 lines
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00:00:02 This film has been made possible thanks to the friendly assistance of
00:02:38 UTILITARIAN ART / UNKNOWN ORIGIN
00:03:19 beyong métissage and the slave ships
00:04:17 the traveller discovered nations
00:08:46 all the vestments of Greece over a people of a sect
00:09:32 Art here begins in the spoon
00:10:20 Where man affirms his reign over things
00:11:19 And their eternal countenance takes, sometimes, the shape of a root.
00:12:26 And they are not so much idols as toys, serious toys
00:13:03 they have to be fair.
00:13:39 the world of beauty.
00:16:05 Mask which participates of both beast and man.
00:17:17 Through life, this double takes sometimes the form of the shadow
00:19:40 Classified, labelled
00:20:37 black art becomes indigenous handicraft.
00:21:16 Also an art of portraits.
00:22:15 the cult of ancestors evaporates
00:23:14 Caught in a pass between Islam, enemy of the images
00:24:14 There, that is the black artist who says it.
00:25:16 Into this country of gift and exchange, we have introduced money.
00:26:36 It happens that he cries "foul" when things are turning out bad.
00:28:10 accomplishes now empty gestures.
00:29:03 There would be nothing to prevent us from being, together
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed390
Dialogue density13.0 lines / min
First line00:00:02
Final line00:29:03
Production Record
DirectorChris Marker, Alain Resnais, Ghislain Cloquet
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes1,438