Movie-Database: Movies
Subverses - China in Mozambique
Credits
Name: Subverses - China in Mozambique
Country: Mosambik; Österreich
Year of publication: 2010
Format: DVD
Color: color
Language : OF m. dt. UT
Duration: 45 Minuten
Direction: Raidel, Ella
Camera: Raidel, Ella
Editing: Schneider, Thomas
Abstract
"The documentary opens with the image of a Chinese businessman, negotiating on a mobile, on a terrace above the rooftops of Maputo. He stands with his back to us, nameless and faceless. He extols his view over the city and its beauty with the pride of a colonial. The tone is thus set."On her homepage, Ella Raidel starts the description of her film with this quotation (from Sylvia Szely). It shows that Chinese firms in Mozambique also do not proceed "gingerly", but "in accordance with the terms of profit maximisation. The notion of workers having rights is as alien to this way of thinking as the idea that disadvantaging the local workforce could be a form of racism." Set against this is the slam poetry by artists from Maputo as "an expression of autonomy".