Underplayed Gems

The Cemetery of Cinema (2020)

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Original title
Au cimetière de la pellicule
Directed by
Thierno Souleymane Diallo
Genre
documentary film
Country
Guinea
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
TP
Rating
7.7 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

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.

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How it feels

A Guinean filmmaker travels across his country looking for a lost film from 1953, the first movie made by a Black French-speaking African. Along the way he learns about the past and present of cinema in Guinea and searches for a copy of the missing film in France.

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What happens

Au cimetière de la pellicule est un film documentaire guinéen réalisé en 2023 par Thierno Souleymane Diallo.. Thierno parcourt la Guinée à la recherche de Mouramani, premier film tourné en 1953 à Paris par un Noir d'Afrique francophone. Dans cette quête il découvre ce que fut le cinéma dans son pays et ce qu'il est devenu. Confrontant sa caméra à l'Histoire, il cherche jusqu'en France une copie de ce film disparu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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