Artifices

Short / Documentary
France, 1963, 10 min

Directed by:

François Reichenbach

Plots(1)

A group of French pupils asks their American peers – what is the Far West? The young Americans answer with their teacher’s help. The director transforms the children’s statements into images, and shows how the state instills an official opinion on the Far West. Are we watching a visual rhapsody or is it a politically engaged cinéma direct documentary? (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)

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