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Les Statues meurent aussi (Statues Also Die)
Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislain Cloquet, 1953, 30 min.
In French with English Subtitles
Discussion with Zoë Strother and Sam Di Iorio  

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Les Statues meurent aussi is a groundbreaking essay film that confronts the cultural violence of colonialism by examining how African art has been stripped of its meaning and reduced to museum objects in the West. 

Upon its completion, Les Statues meurent aussi was swiftly censored in France. The final reel, containing the film’s most explicit anti-colonial critique, was banned and remained suppressed in the Arab world for nearly four decades.  In recent years, some argue that it has been deployed in a destructive way in debates on restitution.