Country: Italy
Year: 1991
Duration: 15'
The documentary is an attempt to offer a springboard for thinking about the figure of the "white man" at the point when he relates to blacks. Particularly the first part, which is set in Senegal, describes the characteristics of the "toubab" (as the white man is called down there) and comments through images of daily life in Senegal, its various environments and historical places. The second part ends the film journey in Florence, Italy during the hungerstrike conducted by the Senegalese in Piazza Duomo in February 1990.
Biography
film director
Teresa Punzi
Teresa Punzi (Rome, 1965) works as assistant film and TV cameraperson. In 1990 she made the documentary Toubab, presented at the ninth Turin Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Toubab (video, 1990), Caballitos de totora (video, 1992).
Sabrina Varani
Sabrina Varani (Rome, Italy, 1965), cinematographer and filmmaker, has collaborated with many directors in Italy and France, including Laura Muscardin, Atiq Rahimi, Agostino Ferrente, Alina Marazzi, Mariangela Barbanente, René Feret, Claire Duguet, and Emmanuel Bonn.
FILMOGRAFIA
Toubab (cm, doc., 1991), Negri de Roma (mm, doc., 2002), Easy Rider - Bikers for Christ (mm, doc., 2008), Riding for Jesus (mm, doc., 2012), Pagine nascoste (doc., 2017).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Sabrina Varani, Teresa Punzi.
Music: XaIam, Empire Bakuda, Super Diamond De Dakar.
Editor: Giovanni Marcari, Andrea Bandinelli, Maurizio Contini.
Production company and Italian distribution: Tape Connection, via P. Querini 3, Roma, tel. 5781104.
Music: XaIam, Empire Bakuda, Super Diamond De Dakar.
Editor: Giovanni Marcari, Andrea Bandinelli, Maurizio Contini.
Production company and Italian distribution: Tape Connection, via P. Querini 3, Roma, tel. 5781104.