Alex’s Wedding
DVD
"Alex’s Wedding," by Jean-Marie Téno / Cameroon and France / 2003 / 45mins / Documentary / Bamileke and French
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Unlike any wedding video you’ve ever seen, Teno’s sharp eye captures every uncomfortable moment in a polygamous marriage ceremony. Personal, public and generational, this film is a politically committed work that, by the end, sides unequivocally with the women trapped in an enduring tradition. Also included is Head In The Clouds / La Tete Dans Les Nuages, in which the director criticizes the ills of the modern world and the regression of African societies.
Films
Alex’s Wedding
Téno, Jean-Marie
/ Cameroon and France / 2003
/ 45mins
Unlike any wedding video you've ever seen, Teno's sharp eye captures every uncomfortable moment in a polygamous marriage ceremony.
Head In The Clouds / La tête dans les nuages
Téno, Jean-Marie
/ Cameroon / 1995
/ 37mins
Kleptocracy has become an accepted fact of Cameroonian life described by the proverb: "The goat grazes where it is tied."
