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  • Waiting for (African) Cinema: Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Quest

  • Vlad Dima
  • Journal:
    African Studies Review / Volume 62 / Issue 1 / March 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 June 2018, pp. 49-66
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  • Throughout his career, Cameroonian director Jean-Pierre Bekolo has been searching for cinema; not African cinema, just Cinema. In order to explain properly this claim, the essay will first consider Bekolo’s work within the context of the ever-ongoing conversation regarding the framing and aesthetics of African and Third Cinemas. Second, for a closer perspective on what will be termed “neurotic cinema,” the essay will key on Bekolo’s latest effort, Naked Reality (2016), a purposely unfinished work that echoes absurdist theater, mimics frantic contemporary thought, and proposes that cinema should not yield finalized products because that may go against its very nature.