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Africa Addio

Ongoing

Location: Redstone Theater

With introduction by guest curator Jason Kohn

Dirs. Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi. 1966, 122 mins.This notorious, oft-maligned follow-up to the filmmakers’ surprise international box office hit, Mondo Cane, offers a collagist record of the African continent during moments of transition away from colonialist rule. Though its overriding perspective cannot be separated from that of colonialists, making for an at-times discomfiting viewing experience, it remains an extraordinarily unique document of places, people, politics, and ideology in transformational flux, and stubbornly persists as one of the most impressive and ambitious visual efforts in the history of nonfiction cinema.

 

Tickets: $15 ($11 seniors and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / free for children under 3 and Museum members at the Film Lover and Kids Premium levels and above). Order tickets online.(Members may contact [email protected] with questions regarding online reservations.)

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