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6.9
/10
60 Ratings

BARBARIC LAND

Pays barbare

Directed by Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
France, 2013
Avant-Garde
  • 6565 minutes

Synopsis

We pore over material relating to Italian colonial Ethiopia (Abyssinia), recently unearthed in a private film archive. We scour those individual film frames of colonialism, studying them with a magnifying lens, and transcribe the captions…

Synopsis

We pore over material relating to Italian colonial Ethiopia (Abyssinia), recently unearthed in a private film archive. We scour those individual film frames of colonialism, studying them with a magnifying lens, and transcribe the captions…