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Black Soul / Âme noire
Catalogue Number: NFB523438
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Yves Leduc, Pierre Hébert, Marcel Jean
Directors: Martine Chartrand
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Animation, Arts, Black History, Canadian Social Studies, Diversity, History, Social Studies, World History
Grade Level: Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2000
Running Time: 9:47
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Black Soul / Âme noire
Catalogue Number: NFB523438
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Yves Leduc, Pierre Hébert, Marcel Jean
Directors: Martine Chartrand
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Animation, Arts, Black History, Canadian Social Studies, Diversity, History, Social Studies, World History
Grade Level: Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2000
Running Time: 9:47
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BLACK SOUL is an exhilarating immersion into the heart of Black culture via a whirlwind voyage through the defining moments of Black History. As an old lady initiates her grandson into his past, a series of perpetually transforming images painted directly under the animation camera unfolds before our eyes. In a mesmerizing swirl of light and colour, the boy traces his ancestry to mighty Pharaohs, and to valiant kings whose praises are sung by a griot beneath the baobab tree. Suddenly, the beating of drums conjures forth the slave market and far-flung exile. At long last, rocked by the rhythms of gospel and jazz, the boy makes his way from the lush Caribbean to the snows of the Americas. A film without words.