Les Bicots-nègres, vos voisins (1974)
- Directed by
- Med Hondo
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- France, Mauritania
- Runtime
- 2h 40m
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary shows the lives of African immigrant workers in France and argues that they face exploitation similar to slavery. A long opening monologue criticizes how African people have been shown in films.
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What happens
Les Bicots-nègres, vos voisins (Arabs and Niggers, Your Neighbours) is a 1974 French-Mauritanian film, written and directed by Med Hondo. Les Bicots-nègres, vos voisins, a three-hour documentary, was Hondo's second feature-length film and his first colour feature. It opened with a 21-minute monologue in which a man, speaking directly to camera, expounded the history of cinematic representation in Africa. As in his debut film, Soleil O (1970), Hondo addressed the racism encountered by African immigrants in France, and the continuities between slavery and the postcolonial exploitation of migrant labour: I wanted to show that these workers aren't eating anyone else's food, and that they hardly get what is theirs by right. And to show how they live, and what their problems are, their difficulties, their contradictions, all of them things that European workers know but poorly. The film won the Gold Tanit at the 1974 Carthage Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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