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 Girls’, women with porcelain-white skin. A Kodak director describes his encounter with the ‘real’ Lili.
Also in this combined programme
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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
Film details
- Country of production
- Belgium
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
