catherinehessling &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:catherinehessling @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:30:05 +0200 Sur un air de Charleston [Charleston Parade] (Jean Renoir, 1927) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/sur-un-air-de-charleston-1927 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Sur un air de Charleston [Charleston Parade] (Jean Renoir, 1927)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" Extraterrestrial Culture Day/div div class="img" Sur un air de Charleston (1927)/div div class="caption" Parisian savage Catherine Hessling and African explorer Johnny Hudgins exploring each other's alien ways. DP: Jean Bachelet./div div class="txt" ##### Legendary African-American #vaudeville performer Johnny Hudgins – in historically correct Blackface – plays an African explorer who descends onto 2028 Paris to learn about the primitive ways of the white natives. Soon, he discovers the Charleston.\ "I have finally discovered my ancestors' traditional dance." ### – Johnny Hudgins\ A fantastic Afrofuturist short, made a decade before Sun Ra's trip to Saturn./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #ExtraterrestrialCultureDay #JeanRenoir #CatherineHessling #JohnnyHudgins #ClementDoucet #JeanBachelet #ShortFilm #comedy #dance #Blackface #SilentFilm #ethnography #Afrofuturism #SciFi #Paris #France #1920s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Sur un air de Charleston [Charleston Parade] (Jean Renoir, 1927)

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Extraterrestrial Culture Day

Sur un air de Charleston (1927)

Parisian savage Catherine Hessling and African explorer Johnny Hudgins exploring each other's alien ways. DP: Jean Bachelet.

Legendary African-American #vaudeville performer Johnny Hudgins – in historically correct Blackface – plays an African explorer who descends onto 2028 Paris to learn about the primitive ways of the white natives. Soon, he discovers the Charleston.

“I have finally discovered my ancestors' traditional dance.”

– Johnny Hudgins

A fantastic Afrofuturist short, made a decade before Sun Ra's trip to Saturn.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #ExtraterrestrialCultureDay #JeanRenoir #CatherineHessling #JohnnyHudgins #ClementDoucet #JeanBachelet #ShortFilm #comedy #dance #Blackface #SilentFilm #ethnography #Afrofuturism #SciFi #Paris #France #1920s ★★★★☆

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