Aristotle's Plot
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jean-pierre Bekolo
Seputla Sebogohi
Albee Lesotho
Ken Gampu
Anthony Levendale
Dylan Wilson-max
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Without including any film clips from African cinema or interviews with helmers from the continent, writer-director Jean-Pierre Bekolo chooses for his survey to express issues of consumption and disregard by an overwhelming number of African moviegoers for its own native cinema. Bekolo's fictionalized thesis revolves around the conflict between two characters, Cinema and Cineast who literally fight over what kind of films African audiences should see: Hollywood action or "boring" indigenous films.
Director
Jean-pierre Bekolo
Cast
Seputla Sebogohi
Albee Lesotho
Ken Gampu
Anthony Levendale
Dylan Wilson-max
Crew
Jacques Bidou
Regis Blondeau
Steve Chigorimbo
Marianne Jacobs
Bob Last
Colin Maccabe
Steven Munro
Jean-claude Petit
Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Aurelie Ricard
Carine Tredgold
Film Details
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States August 1997
Released in United States January 1997
Released in United States September 1996
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1997
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival September 5-14, 1996.
Shown at Urbanworld Film Festival (in competition) in New York City (Guild 50 Theatre) August 20-24, 1997.
"The Century of Cinema" is a series of personal documentaries commissioned by the BFI to celebrate the centenary of film. For this series, some of the world's leading filmmakers were invited to provide individual interpretations of the history and development of cinema in their countries. The result is a fascinating look at highly disparate national cinemas and 100 years of film around the globe.
The participating filmmakers include: Martin Scorsese & Michael Henry Wilson (USA), George Miller (Australia), Stephen Frears & Mike Dibb (England), Shu Kei (China), Anne-Marie Mieville & Jean-Luc Godard (France), Edgar Reitz (Germany), Mrinal Sen (India), Donald Taylor Black (Ireland), Bernardo Bertolucci & Enrico Ghezze (Italy), Nagisa Oshima (Japan), Jang Sun-woo (Korea), Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Latin America), Sam Neill & Julie Rymer (New Zealand).
The participating filmmakers include: Mohamed Tazi (North Africa), Pavel Lozinski (Poland), Jean Pierre Bekolo (Sub-Saharan Africa) and others.
Ultra-Stereo
Released in United States January 1997 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema) in Park City, Utah January 16-26, 1997.)
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1997
Released in United States August 1997 (Shown at Urbanworld Film Festival (in competition) in New York City (Guild 50 Theatre) August 20-24, 1997.)
Released in United States September 1996 (Shown at Toronto International Film Festival September 5-14, 1996.)
