Raoul Peck

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Raoul Peck (2017)

Raoul Peck (* 1953 in Port-au-Prince , Haiti ) is a film director and screenwriter. He became known to a larger international audience with his documentary Lumumba: Death of the Prophet (1992) about the Congolese freedom fighter and politician Patrice Lumumba and the feature film Lumumba from the year 2000, which retells the story of Lumumba from 1960–1961.

Career

In the 1950s, he and his family moved to Kinshasa (then Léopoldville) for a few years because his father took a job in what was then the Belgian Congo. As a child, Raoul Peck experienced the political events surrounding independence at the time, until he left Zaire as a teenager . He received training and studies in the USA , France and Germany . In Berlin , Peck studied film at the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB). He is also a trained industrial engineer, journalist and photographer. In 1994/95 he taught at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU). In 1996 and 1997 he was Minister of Culture in Haiti , and since April 2000 he has been acting President of the French Commission d'Aide au Cinéma Fonds Sud . Raoul Peck was a member of the International Jury of the Berlinale 2002 and lives in Paris .

In 2012 he was appointed to the competition jury of the 65th Cannes International Film Festival .

Cinematic creation

His graduation film after his studies at the DFFB, the feature film New York is not Haiti (1987), won an award at the Locarno Festival . A planned feature film project about the suicide of the Turkish asylum seeker Cemal Kemal Altun remained unrealized.

His international breakthrough came with the multi-award-winning film essay Lumumba: Death of the Prophet (1992). Peck's film was hailed as poetic and intelligent. It is not 'only' the story of the murder of Patrice Lumumba , but also a meditation on the presence of an elusive past, a reminder of the director's childhood when Haitians were brought to Zaire because they needed skilled workers and they were “black and French spoke ”, an analysis of neo-colonial journalism and, last but not least, a necessarily broken visualization of the unredeemed dream of the liberation of Africa.

His film The Man on the Quai (1993) was the first film from the Caribbean to be premiered in the Cannes competition . Like Peck's feature film Lumumba , which premiered at the “Quinzaine des réalisateurs” at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2000, the film received many international awards.

In 2005 he took part in the competition of the International Film Festival in Berlin with his film As the Murder Began, about the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 .

Working on I Am Not Your Negro earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary in 2017 . The film tells about the black civil rights movement and the racist conditions in the USA on the basis of texts by James Baldwin , who writes about his friends Medgar Evers , Malcolm X and Martin Luther King .

Filmography

  • 1982: De Cuba traigo un cantar (short film)
  • 1983: Leugt (short documentary film)
  • 1983: Burial (short documentary film)
  • 1983: Excerpt (short film)
  • 1994: Le Ministre de l'intérieur est de notre côté
  • 1984: Merry Christmas Germany (short documentary film)
  • 1987: New York is not Haiti (Haitian corner) (feature film)
  • 1990: Lumumba: Death of the Prophet (Lumumba: La mort du prophète) (documentary)
  • 1993: The Man on the Quai (L'homme sur les quais) (documentary)
  • 1994: Haiti - Le silence des chiens (documentary)
  • 1994: Desounen: Dialogue with Death (documentary)
  • 1997: Documenta X - The Films (Documentary)
  • 1997: Chère Catherine (short film)
  • 1998: Not out of love (Corps plongés) (documentary)
  • 2000: Lumumba (feature film)
  • 2001: profit, nothing but profit! (Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle) (documentary)
  • 2005: When the Murder Begins (Sometimes in April) (feature film)
  • 2006: L'affaire Villemin (TV series)
  • 2009: Apprenticeship in Power (L'école du pouvoir) (TV film)
  • 2009: Moloch Tropical (TV movie)
  • 2012: Haiti: Assistance mortelle (documentary)
  • 2014: Mord in Pacot (Meurtre à Pacot) (feature film, also as Murder in Haiti )
  • 2016: I Am Not Your Negro (Documentary)
  • 2017: The young Karl Marx (Le jeune Karl Marx) (feature film)

Web links

Commons : Raoul Peck  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Everything is based on reality" Interview with Raoul Peck , in: taz - Die Tageszeitung from February 16, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Peck, Raoul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Haitian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Port-au-Prince