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You All Are Captains - FILMMAKER IN PERSON

Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

November 14, 2011

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Directed by Oliver Laxe, Appearing in Person. With Shakib Ben Omar, Nabil Dourgal, Mohamed Bablouh
Spain/Morocco 2010, 35mm, b/w, 78 min. Arabic, French and Spanish with English subtitles

You All Are Captains begins as a fairly straightforward film about filmmaking, following Laxe as he tries to shepherd his young students through the process of shooting a movie. But the film quickly establishes a mise-en-abyme wherein it becomes genuinely difficult to tell what is real and what is fiction. Laxe presents himself as well-intentioned but cynical, willing to play the paternalistic European to get the shots he wants. Meanwhile, the film raises serious questions about colonial relations and filmmaking, beginning with an early sequence in which the boys train their cameras on a group of European tourists. Thus from a deceptively simple premise springs a barbed allegory about power relations not just on either side of the camera but geopolitically. The result is something of a game of mirrors with the happy outcome of encouraging viewers to see cinema with the entirely new eyes of these children.

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    Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
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