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.
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Film: We Come as Friends (2014)
Hubert Sauper’s We Come as Friends shares the same anti-colonial, utterly grim tenor as his Oscar-Nominated Darwin’s Nightmare (2004), an equally outstanding documentary where a swathe of African culture has been clobbered by the vestiges of European colonial powers, and levels of corruption guarantee the average citizen is effective fucked for generations…
DVD: Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)
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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