TY  - ADVS
AU  - Téno,Jean-Marie
AU  - Badgley,Christiane
AU  - Eock,Alain
ED  - Westdeutscher Rundfunk.
ED  - Association relative à la télévision européenne.
TI  - Chef! =: Chief. La tête dans les nuages = Head in the clouds 
T2  - Library of African cinema
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - San Francisco, CA
PB  - California Newsreel
KW  - Authoritarianism
KW  - Cameroon
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Freedom of the press
KW  - Informal sector (Economics)
KW  - Yaoundé
KW  - fast
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Yaoundʹe (Cameroon)
KW  - 1982-
KW  - 1960-
KW  - Video recordings for the hearing impaired
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - French language films
KW  - local
KW  - Foreign language films
N1  - Title from title screens; "La tête dans les nuages" was originally produced in 1994; Chef! (61 min.) / filmé, produit et réalisé par Jean-Marie Téno ; monté par Christiane Badgley ; musique originale, Brice Wassy ; translation, Christiane Badgley -- La tête dans les nuages (35 min.) / écrit, produit et réalisé par Jean-Marie Téno ; une co-production WDR/ARTE ; musique, Ben's Belinga, Olivier Pessina ; image, Bonaventure Takoukam, Roland Kepseu, Emmanuel Chediou ; scripte, Henriette Fenda ; direction de production, Alain Eock ; montage, Jocelyne Ruiz, Stéphane Foucault, Carole Ferrand; Producer/Director, Jean-Marie Teno
N2  - "In ... Chef!, Teno locates the roots of Africa's authoritarian regimes in the patriarchal family, reinforced by traditional kingship and the colonial experience. Teno insists that this film was not planned but imposed itself on him during a visit to his ancestral village, Bandjoun, in the Ghomala speaking region of Western Cameroon. He had gone to film dances dedicating a monument to King Kamga Joseph II, the filmmakers' great grand uncle, but the ceremony soon turned into a celebration of one-man rule, in particular Cameroonian President Paul Biya's"--From the California Newsreel Web site; "Teno investigates the ties between unaccountable government and an unproductive economy in La tête dans les nuages. Kleptocracy has become an accepted fact of Cameroonian life described by the proverb: "The goat grazes where it is tied." The government controlled formal sector, like its colonial predecessor, is essentially parasitical. An informal sector has emerged parallel to it which increasingly supplies the daily subsistence needs of the people. Irene, for example, works at the Ministry of Education for an unreliable and inadequate salary; she earns the money she needs to eat from selling beignets in the market. She also belongs to a tontine or "credit union" which offers its members a pool of capital to draw on for business ventures. Such clubs, ubiquitous among African market women, help fill the economic and social vacuum left by the decay of traditional society and the unresponsiveness of the formal banking sector"--From the California Newsreel Web site
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