Screening Times
Thursday February 07, 8:15 p.m., PCC Cascade Moriarty Bldg. 104 with Alex's Wedding (Documentary Night with Film Director Jean-Marie Teno)
All films are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.
Colonial Misunderstanding / Le Malentendu Colonial (Cameroon)
Directed by Jean-Marie Teno
2004, 73 min.
In French, German and English with English subtitles
Colonial Misunderstanding is a journey through history that brings to light the complex and problematic relationship between colonialism and missionary activity on the African continent. The film scrutinizes in particular the role of German missionaries in Namibia on the centenary of the 1904 genocide of the Herrero people in which more than three million Herrero people were murdered by the Germans, while missionaries helped to destroy African beliefs and social systems and replace them with European ones. The film looks to the past as a way of understanding (and finding solutions for) today's neocolonial equivalents: rapacious globalization and Western "humanitarianism."
Jean-Marie Teno, one of
Africa's premiere documentary filmmakers, will be present to introduce and
discuss his films.