To Repel Ghosts (African Metropolis)

Philippe Lacôte

Ivory Coast / 2013 / Fiction / 20’0”I1405571

To Repel Ghosts (African Metropolis)
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On 12 August 1988, Jean-Michel Basquiat passed away but his memory remains very much alive. This film pays homage to him by telling the story of his trip to the Ivory Coast. Basquiat arrived in Abidjan at a time when he was exhausted, haunted. All his hopes lay in this first encounter with Africa...

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