Zouaves d’Afrique dans les Flandres belges
Alfred Machin,
1915,
5’
The film shows Zuaven, an infantry unit of North African colonial soldiers. In addition to a parade, various leisure activities of the soldiers can be seen, which were allegedly filmed one kilometre behind the front line: Frontline theatre, boisterous games, boxing matches as well as a wrestling match staged as a symbolic fight between a white conqueror and an African colonised man.
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« « J’étais là, telle chose m’advint » (J. de la Fontaine) est l’attitude du documentariste, et Machin en tant que réalisateur du documentariste [...] applique cette maxime à la lettre. »
Eric de Kuyper1
- 1Eric de Kuyper, Alfred Machin: Cinéaste/film-maker (Brussels: Royal Belgian Film Archive, 1995), 121.
