Dominique Dubosc
2021
Palestine, Palestine
Dominique Dubosc
In a country that has been occupied for decades, a couple of puppeteers continue to bring a little joy from village to village. The children laugh, perhaps still unaware of the gravity of the situation. The central section is devoted to a visit to the refugee camp of Dheisheh.
Palestine, Palestine
La lettre jamais écrite
Dominique Dubosc
"I always hoped that one day my father would write me a letter telling me where he had hidden his love for me. But then he died and I never received the letter." As part of a series commissioned by French TV station ARTE in which 18 filmmakers were asked to use a Hi8 camera and fill a tape with a single shot, Dubosc takes the camera around his deceased father's house in Kamakura and, inspired by the above quote, describes the rare moments in which his father showed his love.
The Letter That Was Never Written
Los días de nuestra muerte
Dominique Dubosc
Days of Our Death is a documentary about workers in an army occupied tin mine in Bolivia. The film alternates between showing the men, women, and children of the community at work and going to school and showing a street celebration. Narration over the scenes of work consist of sentences written by the children in school exercise spoken in Spanish and repeated in French.
Days of Our Death
Manojhara ou la léproserie Sainte-Isabelle
Dominique Dubosc
MANOJHARA portrays – in their own words – the experiences of the residents of Paraguay’s Santa Isabel leper colony. They narrate images of life in the colony with statements about moving from the periphery of the colony, where the healthier patients stay, to the center, where the dying patients are, as well as anticipation of a celebration and not wanting to feel ill and outcast.
Manojhara
Jean Rouch, Primera Película: 1947-1991
Dominique Dubosc
Jean Rouch
The first film in Jean Rouch's filmography is not his first film at all. It was edited by a French news company, using images he had shot but organised into a very different sequence from his own. On top of that, it was accompanied by a colonialist commentary said by a sports reporter! As we watch, Jean Rouch ad-libs a new commentary more in keeping with his images, and so, in 1991, he finally finishes his first film! - Dominique Dubosc
Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991