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COME BACK, AFRICA
When
- Wednesday
- Feb. 8, 2012
- 6:45 PM
Description
SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE! "This film was made secretly to portray the true conditions of life in South Africa today. There are no professional actors in this drama of the faith of a man and his country. This is the story of Zachariah - one of the hundreds of thousands of Africans forced each year off the land by the regime and into the gold mines." So begins COME BACK, AFRICA, Lionel Rogosin's (ON THE BOWERY) powerful and unflinching 1959 feature film. Away from his village and ambling from one dehumanizing job to another, Zachariah experiences first-hand the extent to which apartheid South Africa will go to rob an honest man of his dignity. This stunning, scathing docudrama won praise abroad and was utterly ignored in the USA upon its initial release, spurring Rogosin to lease and program the groundbreaking Bleecker St. Cinema in New York, which opened COME BACK, AFRICA in 1960 and ignited an intellectual and aesthetic revolution in New York City, the reverberations of which are still being felt today. The film's restoration - by the Cineteca Bologna and the laboratory L'Imagine Ritrovata with the collaboration of Rogosin Heritage and the Anthology Film Archive - serves not only to bring in focus the amazing sociological evidence of the footage, but also to stun us with how recently these barbaric practices were committed. Dir: Lionel Rogosin. Starring Zacharia Mgabi and Venah Bendile. 1959/2012. USA. Subtitles. 84 mins. Nightly at 6:45pm & 8:30pm, plus Sat. + Sun. at (2:30pm) & 4:15pm
Tickets
| $6.50-$10.00 |
Website
Phone
415-820-3907
Where
Tags
art , film , visual art
