FAM3005F Recap Quiz
A politically charged film movement emerging in the 1960s-70s, primarily in Latin America and Africa, as an alternative to Hollywood (First Cinema) and European auteur cinema (Second Cinema).
What is Third Cinema?
The film, set in Dakar, sees a young women struggling in the face of employment, class, migration, crime and family struggles.
What is the plot of the film Atlantics?
A means of constituting how motion pictures and other media circulate through society and who is/are able to interact with these media.
What is the concept a of a film-based "public"?
A restorative justice body established in 1996 to address gross human rights violations committed during the apartheid era (1960–1994).
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission / TRC?
This video featured Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting one another atop of a building.
Which AI-generated action clip recently went viral?
Critics have cited the growing influence of conglomerates such as Netflix on these projects - and they fear that this influence dilutes the stories being told.
What is one of the concerns around "New Nollywood"?
This film was produced under "secret" conditions, directed by Lionel Rogosin and featured the Sophiatown intelligentsia.
What is the background of the film Come Back, Africa?
This is a groundbreaking documentary-essay film that explores race, identity, and memory in South Africa, offering a deeply personal narrative rooted in historical context.
What is the film Milisuthando about?
[QUOTE]: "European Surrealism is empirical. African Surrealism is mystical and metaphorical."
(Bonus ten points if you know you who said this)
What is Leopold Senghor's opinion on African Surrealism? (Bonus ten points if you know you who Senghor is).
A style that seamlessly blends fantastical, supernatural, or surreal elements into an otherwise realistic, mundane world
What is magical realism?
A wave of filmmaking that emerged in the post-94 era, and focused on bridging the gap between oppression and newfound democratic freedoms.
What is the SA New Wave film movement (and what is its focus)?
A 2016 rom-com that exemplifies the disconnected, "modernised" approach of most SA New Wave films.
What is the critical opinion about/around the film Happiness is a Four-Letter Word?
[QUOTE]: "Masilela’s question bespeaks his realization of the film’s significance to contemporary efforts at constructing a South African national identity, of which the development of a national cinema is an important part."
What is the importance of Come Back, Africa and of films produced during Apartheid (anti-Apartheid films)?
Considered a seminal film of its genre, this film follows the journey of a man arriving in London to inherit the vast estate of his deceased brother.
This film chronicles the journey of a family business that is facing the looming threat of bankruptcy and being bought out.
[Quote] "The relationship of magical realism to indigeneity is complex and controversial and necessitates consideration of the attitudes and actions of both writers and critics. The current developments in both indigenous magical realism and indigenous studies add further layers of complexity."
What is Bowers' opinion on the relationship between Magical Realism and African society / Indigenous societies?
The film begins with a teletype caption that places the film spatially in the Maitu community of the East African Territory and temporally 35 years after World War III or The Water War.
What is the opening to / beginning of the film Pumzi?
This is tantamount to the eradication of human spontaneity and the death of film making as an art form.
What is the main/central argument against AI in filmmaking?
These are films produced by and about LGBTQ+ Africans, particularly emerging in the early 21st century to document diverse sexualities and gender identities against a backdrop of state-sanctioned homophobia.
What is Queer African Cinema?
The film closes on a defiant shot of the main character looking up at his interrogator and refusing to comply with an order.
What is the ending to Mapantsula?
Set in the 90s, this film is directed by
Ramadan Suleman.
Who is the director of the film Zulu Love Letter? / What is the film Zulu Love Letter?
This image, of a bicycle with a cow's horns mounted over it's front, was featured in Jay-Z and Beyonce's On The Run II Tour.
What is an iconic image from Touki Bouki and where else has it appeared?
[Quote]: "The influence of assimilation is
profound. Most early Francophone films were
made in French. After a time, Sembene
started working in a Senegalese tongue,
Wolof, though, as Malkmus and Armes write,
“this was not at the time a written
language.”"
What is the issue with using "colonial" languages in African films / languages imposed upon Africa through colonialism?
This is a type of artificial intelligence that can create new content—including text, images, videos, audio, code, and 3D models—in response to user prompts. U
What is generative AI?
The scene features a particularly tense musical score of rapid, repetitive Algerian drumbeats. We see the women (FLN militants) inhabit public spaces at a French cafe, jukebox hall and airport terminal. They each plant a bomb.
What is a pivotal or important scene in The Battle of Algiers?