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Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace (2013)
Directed by Pedro Paiva, João Maria Gusmão
Documentary · 3m
A staged production shot in Maputo with the help of the Associação de Apoio aos Albinos de Moçambique. Persecuted throughout Africa the albino condition has a disturbing appearance of racial ambiguity which for the worst reasons has been the cause of suffering for a lot of people. Complexifying the racial a perception, Pedro and João create the awkward situation where 3 black albinos share jokes about the former colonial power in Moçambique, the Portuguese. Somehow what is staged here as a meta film, concerns a colonial phantasmagoria but is also a literal spin of the third man argument (TMA) Aristotle’s contestation of Plato’s theory of forms. If 2 men resemble each other, in order to be predicative as men, there would have to be a form of men, this form would have to be a man also, and it would follow that for that same form another on would have to exist and so on, on a infinite regression.
Crew
- Director
- Pedro Paiva, João Maria Gusmão
Details
- Release date
- 2013-01-01
- Runtime
- 3m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- XX
- Spoken languages
- No Language