Stolen Images: Lumumba and the Early Films of Raoul Peck

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Among today's leading filmakers, no one brings to the screen such a deep awareness of how power is channeled from First to Third World societies or exhibits such great human sensitivity as Raoul Peck, whose seminal film Lumumba (2000) and three other early feature and documentary screenplays are collected here for the first time. Each film presented includes introductions by the author, production stills, storyboards and poster art.

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Raoul Peck tells the story of the African freedom fighter Patrice Lumumba with fire and grace. Michael Agger

[InHaitian Corner] Peck succeeds admirably with very little detail to make us feel this strange world, this sense of isolation. One thinks of the early films of John Cassavetes. Wilfried Wiegan,Frankfurter Allgmeine

[Peck is] a filmmaker with a fine eye for people and landscapes. The New York Times

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Raoul Pecks feature films and documentaries explore internationalist themes of inequality and offer compelling depictions of Haiti under political duress. In addition to filmmaking, Peck has served as Haitis minister of culture. In 2001 he received the Human Rights Watch Lifetime Achievement Award. His most recent film is Moloch Tropical.