CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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La pyramide humaine posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1961 1h 30m FRA

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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La pyramide humaine

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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME

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Its improvisatory energy, interracial friendships, and rough, street-level intimacy echo the spontaneous social experiment of La pyramide humaine, while keeping emotional tensions unresolved and alive.

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A far more intense Rouch work, but essential for its participatory ethnographic approach and refusal to separate ritual, performance, colonial reality, and the complicity of the observing camera.

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