Black Africa White Marble
New York African Film Festival 2012
April 11 - 17, 2012
Filmmaker in person!
A plan to transfer the remains of the 19th-century explorer Pietro di Brazza to a multimillion-dollar mausoleum in Congo’s impoverished capital belies an insidious hidden agenda in this gripping documentary thriller about Central Africa’s colonial past and troubled present.
Filmmaker in person!
In the 1880s, there were two paths for Central Africa: Pietro di Brazza’s and Henry Stanley’s. Italian by birth and French by education, Brazza rejected the racism of his age, using his philosophy of non-violence to penetrate the rainforests of the Congo Basin, sowing trust along the way. Meanwhile, his rival Stanley (in the service of the Belgian King Leopold II) advanced with the roar of the canon. More than a century later, when the current Congo president decides to transfer di Brazza’s remains from his grave in Algiers to a multimillion-dollar mausoleum in Congo’s impoverished capital, writer Idanna Pucci discovers an insidious hidden agenda behind the plan–one that sheds harsh light on both Central Africa’s colonial past and its corrupt present. Told by filmmaker Clemente Bicocchi using an innovative mixture of animation, puppetry and original documentary footage, Black Africa White Marble is a gripping, real-life David-and-Goliath thriller.
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