Cellulite
By Jean Marie Teno
A Tree Far from the Forest
By Jean Marie Teno |
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Illegal
Immigrants of the South
by Adama ROAMBA
They left Burkina Faso in search of a better life. They settled in
the Ivory Coast where they found work, married, had children, bought
land and built homes. Today the children of those Burkinabe immigrants
are adults who, for the most part, have never been to Burkina Faso.
Yet due to recent changes in that country nationality laws, they cannot
become citizens of the Ivory Coast. Even worse, children of immigrants
now find themselves with no official identity. They are not Burkinabe
and they can’t get any papers in the Ivory Coast. Without ever
moving, they have become illegal immigrants. The new nationality laws
also forbid “foreigners” from inheriting land and holding
certain jobs. Almost overnight, life in the Ivory Coast has become
a nightmare.
My German Diaries by
Jean Marie Teno
MY GERMAN DIARIES is a voyage across Germany and through time during
which I seek to uncover the process of dehumanisation of the African
in Europe from the mid-19th century. The image of the African—childlike,
savage, backwards, inferior —widely disseminated across the continent
until the middle of the 20th century, continues to have visible repercussions
in Europe to this day.
I’ve chosen to focus on European missionary history, the political
role played by churches and missionaries in the colonial enterprise,
in order to expose the churches’ contribution to the construction
of the image of the African?
I will begin my journey in Wuppertal, at the “Mission Evangelique
Reunie”, where I recently met several missionaries who are critical
of their mission’s past, but claim that their church has changed today.
I will also visit the Basel mission in Switzerland…
My McDonald’s:
Memoirs from the Fast Food Nation by Christiane Badgley
My McDonald's: Memoirs from the Fast Food Nation offers an intimate
history of fast
food—my own story evoking key moments in the industry's growth—and
a personal reflection on the far-reaching impact of fast food on contemporary
society. The film is a revelatory journey from France, where I now
live and observe the growing presence of McDonald’s, to my homeland,
Southern California, cradle of the fast food civilization.
Fast food: there's more to the story than the planetary triumph of
hamburgers and fries. The guiding principles of the fast food industry—efficiency,
predictability and control—have spread to all sectors of the
American economy, creating a fast food nation of chains and shopping
malls, a vast land of regimentation and uniformity. The fast food
industry has fundamentally altered life in America—making one
city virtually indistinguishable from the next, transforming agriculture
into multinational agribusiness, and flooding the labor market with
low-paying, dead-end jobs. And today, the fast food culture appears
poised to conquer the planet... – Christiane Badgley |
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France’s
Africans by
Jean Marie Teno
In this series of short portraits, (10 x 13 minutes) Africans of different
nationalities, ages and backgrounds, share their experiences in France.
They have come from Mali, Senegal and Cameroon; today they live in
Paris, Marseille, and in a small Normandy village. |
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