Colour Corrections
Combined programme
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IFFR 2016
Natural colours don’t exist in film. Every one is artificial and the result of choice. From lily white models for test shots to films entirely populated by Afro-Americans: these films hide nothing.
In this combined programme
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Lili
Women with a perfect Caucasian skin are filmed beside a colour chart to set the colour balance: exoticism or racism? They are ‘Lilis’ or ‘China… -
Two Marxists in Hollywood
Sergej Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht both separately tried their luck in Hollywood, in vain. Beloff reincarnated them as two lanky youths. -
Juke–Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams
Film essayist Andersen rescues the Afro-American actor, director and scriptwriter Spencer Williams from obscurity with a striking, plotless montage fi -
The Man from Hong Kong
Attractive collage combining the soundtrack of a 1975 Bruce Lee vehicle with French fashion photography and amateur films from the American middle cla