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Filming South Africa: a personal quest
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2022
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Villon Films (http://www.villonfilms.com) is a former production company that is now largely devoted to the distribution and collection of films, videos and photos on a variety of subjects. Most of these are related to my work when I was more active in production, and consist mainly of social and political subjects ranging from 1960s Britain to the USA, Central America, the Middle East, and Africa. Of interest to current readers would be my African collection, which is based on my anti-apartheid work which began in 1975 and ended during the last years of the old regime. It includes some work done after the ending of apartheid, and extends to some other parts of Africa.
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1 In Darkest Hollywood: Exploring the ]ungles of Cinema's South Africa is a social and political history of the image of South Africa created by the cinema. It builds on the numerous interviews with film producers, directors, writers and actors recorded for the making of the two-part documentary with the same name. It covers the early history of cinema up to the ending of the apartheid era. It also includes material from the never-completed third part of the documentary, Zooluology, which deals with the equivocal Zulu image in cinema.
Published in 1996 by South Africa's Ravan Press, the book is now out of print, but about 30 copies are available from the author Peter Davis <peter@villonfilms.com>.
2 The Black Film Archive/Black Film Center is located in Indiana University, Bloomington. It is devoted mostly to African-Americans in cinema, producers and directors, actors, technicians, their films and personal archives. There is a broad collection of films, and there is now an interest in the work of non-American black cinema. http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/.