The filmfestival Film fra Sør (Films from the South) in Oslo, Norway is screening an interview with director Raoul Peck on his new documentary mini-series «Exterminate All the Brutes» (2021) on November 14, 2021. The 40 minutes conversation between Peck and the historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud will be screened at Cinemateket as part of the Scandinavian premiere of Peck’s filmatic analysis of the modern world.
UPDATE: The conversation between Peck and Herbjørnsrud is now online here:
«WATCH THE CONVERSATION WITH RAOUL PECK ABOUT EXTERMINATE ALL THE BRUTES
«There are no alternative facts.» – Raoul Peck
«During The Critical Room at last year’s Film from the South, we showed Raoul’s Peck series Exterminate All The Brutes, at the same time as we got to see a conversation with the film director and historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud. Exterminate All The Brutes combines classic documentary archive material with quotes and clips from popular culture, and with dramatized thought experiments that illustrate historical events.»
We have received several inquiries about publishing the conversation with Raoul Peck and Dag Herbjørnsrud, so we are now making it available here on our website.
Did you miss Exterminate All The Brutes? You can watch it in its entirety on HBO Max.
«This may be the most politically radical and intellectually challenging TV documentary ever made.» – TIME Magazine
Video: www.filmfrasor.no/en/news/se-samtalen-med-raoul-peck-om-exterminate-all-the-brutes
Info from «Films from the South» (FFS):
«DIGITAL MEETING WITH RAOUL PECK
In connection with our screening of Exterminate All the Brutes, we will screen a digital talk with Raoul Peck and author and historian of ideas, Dag Herbjørnsrud.
«There is no such thing as alternative facts.» – Raoul Peck
From the director of groundbreaking documentary I Am Not Your Negro (2016) comes a monumental epic about the history, present, and future of colonialism. Director Raoul Peck has referred to this four-episode documentary as the origin story of white supremacy.
Its title is a quote from Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness, later re-interpreted in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979). The quote was later thoroughly analysed by Swedish historian Sven Lindqvist, who wrote about the relationship between colonialism and Nazism. In his radical, experimental documentary, Raoul Peck takes us on a revolutionary journey which explores the links from the invading «Pioneers of the New World» via institutionalised slavery in the US, to Hitler’s orchestrated genocide and from there to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Rwandan mass slaughter of 1994.
Exterminate All The Brutes combines classic documentary archive material with quotes and clips from popular culture, interspersed with dramatized thought experiments which illustrate historical events. This four-part HBO series will be screened in full at Films From the South 2021. It will be an unforgettable experience.»
More: https://www.filmfrasor.no/en/film/2021/exterminate-all-the-brutes
Cinemateket, Oslo, Sunday November 14, 3:30 pm:
TCR: COLONIALISM AND RACISM – TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN?
DIGITAL TALK WITH RAOUL PECK
«On the occasion of this special festival screening, world famous director Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro (2016), Young Karl Marx (2017), Lumumba (2000)) is joining us for a digital talk with Dag Herbjørnsrud, historian of ideas and founder of Center for Global and Comparative History of Ideas (SGOKI). Their conversation will be pre-recorded.
This event is part of The Critical Room (TCR), the traditional forum for film and debate at Films From the South.»
SCHEDULE
- 3:30pm Screening of Exterminate All the Brutes begins
- 5:30pm Intermission
- 6:05pm Digital interview with Raoul Peck and Dag Herbjørnsrud
- 6:50pm Screening resumes
«From the director of groundbreaking documentary I Am Not Your Negro (2016) comes a monumental work about the history, present, and future of colonialism. Director Raoul Peck has referred to this four-episode documentary as the origin story of white supremacy.
Its title is a quote from Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness, later re-interpreted in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979). The quote was later thoroughly analysed by Swedish historian Sven Lindqvist, who wrote about the relationship between colonialism and Nazism. In his radical, experimental documentary, Raoul Peck takes us on a revolutionary journey which explores the links from the invading «Pioneers of the New World» via institutionalised slavery in the US, to Hitler’s orchestrated genocide and from there to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Rwandan mass slaughter of 1994.»
https://www.filmfrasor.no/en/events/2021/dkr-kolonialisme-og-rasisme-to-sider-av-samme-sak
