We Come As Profiteers: Hubert Sauper’s Grim African Diptych
Reviews of Hubert Sauper’s Darwin’s Nightmare (2007) and his latest work, We Come As Friends (2014), which screened recently at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.
Reviews of Hubert Sauper’s Darwin’s Nightmare (2007) and his latest work, We Come As Friends (2014), which screened recently at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.
Without a formal narrative structure, Hubert Sauper ‘s documentary occasionally uses captions and intertitles as aids, but the story within Darwin’s Nightmare pretty much relies on the words of locals and powerful images to document the social and evolutionary conflicts and catastrophies within a modest Tanzanian town by Lake Victoria…
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