Matamata & Pilipili
A Film by Tristan Bourlard
- Producer -
Synopsis
In 1950, a Belgian missionary and film fanatic in the Congo authored some twenty films : the "Matamata and Pilipili" series. These comic heroes, Africa’s answer to Laurel and Hardy, were the delight of Congolese movie-goers. Never viewed outside the continent, the films were to disappear at the close of the colonial périod. Tristan Bourlard has now recovered the oiginal negatives in Belgium. Fifty years after their creation, this film reveals these hidden gems and tells their strange story. Matamata and Pilipili are back on the screen.
Product guide
Documentary
55 min
Color
Betacam SP
Film Crew
Director : Tristan Bourlard
Cinematographer - D.O.P. : Frédéric Decoux-Gilles Stassart
Sound : Cosmas Antoniadis
Editor : Yves Van Herstraeten
Producers
Cobra Films et Videocam
Coproduction
C.B.A.
RTBF
With The Support
Communauté française de Belgique
Vlaamse Gemeenschap
MAP-TV de la CEE
Award
Prix au Margaret Mead Film Festival - New York - 1997
Broadcasts
RTBF, BRTN, Canal+ (Belgique), Planète Câble (France),
VPRO (Hollande), SBS (Australie)
Afrique du Sud
Festival (s)
IDFA’Amsterdam, Rencontres cinématographiques de Dakar, TV films festival Barcelone, Bilan Ethnographique Paris, Festival du cinéma africain de Milan, Festival de Bruxelles, Festival de Gentilly, Semaine du cinéma belge francophone