Haitian - Director | 1953 -
There's an apparent freedom, an apparent liberty of access to everything, but you can't use it because it's too much. Everything is at the same level. You even have fake news. You have to go through fake news to make up your mind. Facts and lies are treated as equal. There are even people who are against the idea of climate change.
Raoul Peck
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That's what as an artist you always try to do. To try to be a sharper mind than the average person.
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When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I had were the images of Tarzan. That's what I thought Africa was. Of course, the first day I arrived there, I thought I would see a lot of savages dancing on the tarmac.
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My story with film is kind of different because I started with photography because my father was a photo buff. He had all sort of cameras, and I grew up with that.
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I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn't until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go to film school.
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To put it simply, as a black man, I started watching films at the age of six, and I've since seen the bad guys changing race - between the African savages, to the Native Americans, and then the blacks and the Arabs and the Chinese and the Vietnamese. Look at 'Rambo': it's exactly that.
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You can binge a TV series or watch a reality show, and they're not innocent. They take a lot of room in your brain, and you don't have any space left for your own thoughts. They give you a scripted reality. It's an ideological tool.
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International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti.
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