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Reception and Gallery Talk for 'LOST FILM/LOST ANCESTORS: Archival Photographs from Zululand'
Date: 9/22/2004; 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Location: Osterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Host Department: Institute for the Humanities
The exhibition features photographs from the personal collection of Peter Davis, a documentary filmmaker from England, currently living in Canada.
Detailed Information
In 1927, Italian adventurer and filmmaker Attilo Gatti created the silent work Siliva the Zulu, almost certainly the first film with an all-black cast to be made in sub-Saharan Africa. Filmmaker Peter Davis discovered this work in the National Film Archive in Pretoria, South Africa, in the late 1980's. In this special exhibition, Davis presents production stills and actual film images from the Siliva the Zulu project, as well as rare portraits by Lidio Cipriani, and Italian ethnographer and crewmember of the Gatti expedition. Never before exhibited in the United States, the Cipriani photographs constitute what is the most comprehensive overview of life in rural Zululand from that period.
Peter Davis is an authority on African and South African cinema, and best known for his film Come Back Africa. Mr Davis also holds one the major archives of African and South African film and the photographs in this exhibition are on loan from his personal collection.
Brown Bag Lecture: Tuesday, 21 September, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Film Screening of Siliva the Zulu: Tuesday, 21 September, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Art Exhibition: September 13-October 29, 2004
This event is cosponsored by the Atlantic Studies Initiative.
Contact Information
Nicola Kiver
734 935 3518 |
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