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Forgotten Films: Raoul Peck’s The Man by the Shore/L’Homme sur les Quais de Raoul Peck

by Pier Marton | Sep 7, 2010 | Afri, Death, Film, France, Human Rights, Racism, Wars, Women

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Watch this film to learn how it felt like to try to survive with the Tonton Macoutes thugs and the Doc Duvalier dictatorship.

His Lumumba films are also important… another filmmaker falling between the cracks.
More about Raoul Peck here.

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BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus