Film · Documentary
Statues Also Die (1953)
★ 6.9 · 52 votes30 minDocumentary1953
Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is devalued and alienated through colonial and museum contexts. Beginning with the question of why African works are confined to ethnographic displays while Greek or Egyptian art is celebrated, the film became a landmark of anti-colonial cinema and was banned in France for eight years.
- Director
- Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Ghislain Cloquet
- Writers
- Chris Marker
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Release date
- May 1, 1953
- Original title
- Les statues meurent aussi
Cast
Jean NégroniNarrator (voice)
François MitterrandSelf (archive footage)
Pope Pius XIISelf (archive footage)
Sugar Ray RobinsonSelf (archive footage)
