Being seen on a screen is not self-determination, especially when the gatekeepers, decision makers who determining the validity of our work are all European. African stories are attempts to explain Africans to Europeans as opposed to Africans explaining themselves to each other. These mere fact renders the whole concept of "Black cinema" and "Black perspective" redundant.
Like Blood diamonds the doc, the idiot is always the African. Shock at any expense, just a good way of airing politics most white feel. But the best way to get away with it is to let a black person write it. Pay them to flush it down the toilet. mock the issues, air the laundry. It is so funny that no film is so controversial that it acts in the liberation of Africans. Why haven't they shown a film like 500 Years Later? why don't they show films and docs that they don't have control over. The only films allowed are ones where the content is set for their taste buds. And never do these films injur the master
Like Blood diamonds the doc, the idiot is always the African. Shock at any expense, just a good way of airing politics most white feel. But the best way to get away with it is to let a black person write it. Pay them to flush it down the toilet. mock the issues, air the laundry. It is so funny that no film is so controversial that it acts in the liberation of Africans. Why haven't they shown a film like 500 Years Later? why don't they show films and docs that they don't have control over. The only films allowed are ones where the content is set for their taste buds. And never do these films injur the master