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In books, television programs and films, René Gardi waxed poetic about the beautiful naked “savages” and the pre-modern era in which they apparently lived. This supposedly idyllic world became Gardi’s paradise, as Africa was transformed into a projection screen for the desires of the audience back home. The film AFRICAN MIRROR tells the story of our problematic image of Africa using materials from Gardi’s archive, whose ambivalent pictures mirror our European self-conception in myriad ways. The film reveals image production as a form of colonialism and shows how we have refused to truly look into this mirror to this very day.

The documentary AFRICAN MIRROR had its first screening at the Berlinale in February this year and was nominated for the Zurich Film Award 2019. From 14 November 2019 it will be in the Swiss cinemas.

Info:www.africanmirror.ch