ethnography &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:ethnography @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:42:50 +0200 Petit à petit [Little by Little] (Jean Rouch, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pn58 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Petit à petit [Little by Little] (Jean Rouch, 1970)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="occasion" Skyscraper Day/div div class="img" Petit à petit (1970)/div div class="caption" Damouré (Damouré Zika) measures a Parisian with craniology callipers. No skyscraper in this still, but there's scaffolding. DP: Jean Rouch./div div class="txt" A skyscraper for Skyscraper Day (USA) &nbsp; In the sequel to Rouch's Jaguar (1967), Damouré wants a high rise for his Niger business with "as many floors as he has wives". He decides to travel to Paris to learn about the construction of such building, and what made Paris to the Paris of today. While there, he gets distracted by the peculiarities of the French natives. Worried about Damouré's increasingly puzzling postcards, his company sends out Lam (Lam Ibrahim Dia) to bring him home. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #SkyscraperDay #skyscrapers #JeanRouch #DamouréZika #LamIbrahimDia #IlloGoudal #SafiFaye #ArianeBruneton #JacquesChabot #MoustaphaAlassane #ethnography #drama #comedy #satire #Paris #France #Niger #1970's/div /section ]]>

Petit à petit [Little by Little] (Jean Rouch, 1970)

Sep

3

Skyscraper Day

Petit à petit (1970)

Damouré (Damouré Zika) measures a Parisian with craniology callipers. No skyscraper in this still, but there's scaffolding. DP: Jean Rouch.

A skyscraper for Skyscraper Day (USA)

 

In the sequel to Rouch's Jaguar (1967), Damouré wants a high rise for his Niger business with “as many floors as he has wives”. He decides to travel to Paris to learn about the construction of such building, and what made Paris to the Paris of today. While there, he gets distracted by the peculiarities of the French natives. Worried about Damouré's increasingly puzzling postcards, his company sends out Lam (Lam Ibrahim Dia) to bring him home.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #SkyscraperDay #skyscrapers #JeanRouch #DamouréZika #LamIbrahimDia #IlloGoudal #SafiFaye #ArianeBruneton #JacquesChabot #MoustaphaAlassane #ethnography #drama #comedy #satire #Paris #France #Niger #1970's

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pn58 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:10:00 +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)

Feb

14

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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