The Zanzibar Films
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- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsNicoPhilippe GarrelChristian PäffgenA composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.
- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsLaurent TerzieffBernadette LafontStanislas RobiolleA 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. The French word révélateur" describes the procedure to develop or "reveal" film negatives.
- DirectorSerge BardStarsCaroline de BendernJuliet BertoThierry Garrel"Destroy Yourself" is a 'primitive' film which breaks all the rules of film-making. It's the first Zanzibar film (and predates the very naming of the movement), an attempt to make a film which defies the rules of production, the production line of commerce.
- DirectorPatrick DevalStarsLaurent CondomidasJackie RaynalEva RidouxWith its title taken from Georges Bataille's journal Acéphale (literally, a headless man, but figuratively expressing the need to go beyond rational ways of thinking), Deval's film is the most literary of the Zanzibar works. The film opens with an illustrative image: a head in the process of being shaved, in close up. This image is accompanied not by the sound of an electric razor but an electric saw, suggesting the need to achieve a tabula rasa by radical means. The story follows the adventures of a young man and his friends as they wander through a barely recognizable post-May 1968 Paris. In documenting the by-gone expressions and gestures of the '68 generation in France, Acéphale becomes something of an anthropological film that reveals the rites and beliefs of the ideological novitiates.
- DirectorDaniel PommereulleStarsMustaphaDaniel PommereulleCharlie UrvoisWriter Nicole Brenez sums up this Zanzibar group short as : If Rimbaud had made a film in Abyssinia.Actor director Pommereulle dances a series of gestures,spells and outbursts against Western civilization in an African desert setting.
- DirectorPierre ClémentiStarsBarbara GirardPierre ClémentiÉtienne O'LearyShot in 1967 but not released until 1976, actor Pierre Clémenti's acid-infused experimental whirlwind of color and music featuring a who's who of the French 60s underground.