The Human Pyramid (1961 film)
The Human Pyramid | |
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French | La Pyramide humaine |
Directed by | Jean Rouch |
Written by | Jean Rouch |
Produced by | Pierre Braunberger |
Cinematography | Louis Miaille Roger Morillière Jean Rouch |
Edited by | Geneviève Bastid Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte |
Production company | Les Films de la Pléiade |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | Ivory Coast |
Language | French |
The Human Pyramid (French: La Pyramide humaine) is a 1961 Ivorian docufiction film directed by Jean Rouch.[1][2] He cast black African and white French students to improvise interactions with each other at an integrated high school in Abidjan.[3]
Plot
Rouch took the title of his film from a poem by the Surrealist
Production
La Pyramide humaine was made on
Reception
The film was banned by colonial authorities through most of Francophone Africa.[4]
Richard I. Suchenski notes that by ending the film with the suicide of one of the students, "Rouch forces the viewers to re-evaluate what they have just seen, drawing attention both to the inevitable presence of fictional tendencies within even the most uncontrolled filmmaking situation".[9]
François Truffaut places La Pyramide humaine among a group of films that "correspond to the new novel and those that aspire to be sociological documents or testimonies".[10]
References
- ISBN 9789048525256– via Google Books.
- ^ "THE HUMAN PYRAMID | Cinematheque". www.cia.edu.
- ^ Ivone Margulies, The real in-balance in Jean Rouch's La Pyramide Humaine
- ^ ISBN 978-0-292-77703-3.
- ISBN 9780395297407– via Google Books.
- ^ a b Graham Jones, A Diplomacy of Dreams: Jean Rouch and Decolonization, American Anthropologist, Vol. 107, No. 1 (March 2005), pp.118–120.
- ^ "The Human Pyramid (1961) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Scheda film".
- ISBN 9780190614089– via Google Books.
- ISBN 9780253026569– via Google Books.
External links
- The Human Pyramid at IMDb
- The Human Pyramid at Rotten Tomatoes