West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty | 4K restoration!
Schedule
Thu May 02 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm
Location
Oklahoma City Museum of Art | Oklahoma City, OK
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A distinctly African take on the Hollywood musical and a one-of-a-kind film primed for rediscovery, Med Hondo's revolutionary 1979 magnum opus traces the history of the West Indies through several centuries of French oppression. Screening in a new 4K restoration! “Mauritanian French director Med Hondo’s 'West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty' proved a watershed event for African cinema—the continent’s first musical as well as a sui generis amalgam of historical epic, Broadway revue, Brechtian theater, and joyous agitprop. Using an enormous mock slave ship as the film’s only soundstage, Hondo mounts intricately choreographed reenactments and dance numbers across his multipurpose set to investigate more than three centuries of imperialist oppression. The story traverses the West Indies, Europe, and the Middle Passage; jumps across time to depict the effects of official French policy upon the colonized, the enslaved, and their descendants; and surveys the actions and motivations of the resigned, the revolutionary, and the powers that be (along with their lackeys). No mere extravaganza, West Indies is a call to arms for a spectacular yet critical cinematic reimagining of an entire people’s history of resistance and struggle.” -Janus Films
Digitally restored by the Harvard Film Archive and Ciné-Archives using the original 35mm picture negative and magnetic track. Financial support provided by the McMillan Stewart Foundation. Film services by Blackhawk Films and Lumières Numériques.
Med Hondo | 1979 | In French with English subtitles | 116 minutes | NR | 4K DCP
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