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Chef! = Chief. La tête dans les nuages = Head in the clouds / les films du Raphia ; filmé, produit et réalisé par Jean-Marie Téno.

Contributor(s): Téno, Jean-Marie | Badgley, Christiane | Eock, Alain | Westdeutscher Rundfunk | Association relative à la télévision européenneMaterial type: FilmFilmLanguage: French Subtitle language: English Series: Library of African cinema (Videocassette)Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1999]Description: 1 videocassette (96 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 inRecord Searches:
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Content type: two-dimensional moving image Media type: video Carrier type: videocassetteOther title: Chief! | Chief. La tête dans les nuages | Head in the cloudsSubject(s): Since 1960 | Authoritarianism -- Cameroon | Political corruption -- Cameroon | Human rights -- Cameroon | Women -- Cameroon -- Social conditions | Freedom of the press -- Cameroon | Informal sector (Economics) -- Cameroon -- Yaoundé | Political corruption | Human rights | Women -- Social conditions | Women | Freedom of the press | Informal sector (Economics) | Economic conditions | Politics and government | Social conditions | Authoritarianism | Yaoundʹe (Cameroon) -- Economic conditions | Cameroon -- Politics and government -- 1982- | Cameroon -- Social conditions -- 1960- | Cameroon | Cameroon -- Yaoundé | WomenGenre/Form: Video recordings for the hearing impaired. | Documentary films. | French language films. | Foreign language films. | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. | Documentary films.Online resources: Download
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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.
Production credits: Producer/Director, Jean-Marie Teno.Summary: "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.Summary: "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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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.

"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.

VHS.

Public performance rights included. TxDN.

In French, with English subtitles.

Comment by Steven Guerrero
05/03/2024

Various line glitches throughout the second half of the tape.

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