Assegai To Javelin (1950s)

Propaganda/misinformation film directed by Italo Bernicchi (Cry, the Beloved Country)

#Misinformation #Propaganda #SouthAfrica #Apartheid #ItaloBernicchi #Archive #Documentary #Photography #Film

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Prince Dixon’s Gospel Caravan (1980s)

Raw ethnographic documentary which reveals to the viewer the Gospel subculture sharing with the viewer the uplifting and exciting experience of the Black Church of Los Angeles in the early 1980s.

© Gris-Gris Films/Villon Films

The Mattachine Society (1960s)

Interview in NY with a member of The Mattachine Society. Founded in 1950, it was an early national gay rights organization in the US, preceded by several covert and open organizations, such as Chicago's Society for Human Rights.

#GayRights

Pub (1962)

Pub will be screened at the @barbicancentre as part of the Public House Portraits programme on Thu 15 Feb. One of three films that explores how public houses are used in the changing landscape of East London from the sixties until today.

#Boozer #EastLondon

Susumu (1989)

© Constant Spring Productions/Villon Films. Excerpt from Gei Zantzinger's documentary on jazz pianist Sumi Tonooka’s poem “Out From The Silence” about the effects on the people of Japanese descent interned after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

#Susumu Sumi Tonooka

Of Pipers and Wrens (1997)

Film © Constant Spring Productions/Villon Films. Gei Zantzinger's film explores how musicians of Brittany, France perceive and perpetuate their Breton identity through dance, song, instrumental music and storytelling.

#BretonCulture #France #Brittany

Egypt, Harrania (1962)

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Transkei – The Road To Independence (1970s)

Taken from VHS tapes representing an extremely rare collection of propaganda materials produced by the SA Information Service. More at villonfilms.ca — South African Propaganda.

#SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Propaganda #Transkei

A reminder of tough days in the 80s. I did this interview a few weeks after we launched Vrye Weekblad as an anti-apartheid weekly in 1988. (I was 36.) The newspaper has since been revived as vryeweekblad.com, publishing in Afrikaans and English. (Thanks Villon Archives)

South Africa, Max Du Preez — unedited interview (1988)

More at villonfilms.ca/archive/vf_wjg…

© Peter Davis/Villon Films.

#SouthAfrica #MaxDuPreez #VryeWeekblad #Journalism #AntiApartheid #Archive #Documentary #Photography #Film Max du Preez

South Africa, Ken Gampu (1990)

Film © Peter Davis/Villon Films. Section of an unedited interview with South African actor, Ken Gampu. More at villonfilms.ca/archive/vf_iaq…

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South Africa, Cape Town, André Brink (1990)

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South Africa, Western Cape (1978)

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London, Lionel Ngakane (1989)

Images © Peter Davis/Villon Films.

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Bayard Rustin, leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence and gay rights (1964)

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South Africa, Transkei, Mabel Notamcu with children (1985)

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South Africa, Gauteng province, Valindaba nuclear facility (1976)

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Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), forestry workers (1975)

Portraits © Peter Davis/Villon Films. View the full collection — Eswatini 1975 — at villonfilms.ca

#SouthernAfrica #Eswatini #Swaziland #ForestryWorkers #Archive #Documentary #Photography #Film

Hi, Mom! production still, Lara Parker (1970)

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