Reblogged from Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDFznqweUTQ
Starting a one-week run tonight at the Film Forum in New York, a new 35 mm restoration of Lionel Rogosin’s “Come Back, Africa” is a truly special event. Made in apartheid South Africa in 1959, it is the first film to lift up a rock and expose the racist system to the light of day.
In defiance of the prevailing Cold War conformity and the Hollywood film industry’s assembly-line production of schlock, Rogosin became a guerrilla fighter using a Bolex camera rather than a machine gun.
Louis Proyect Review of COME BACK, AFRICA