A Parradox in Caribbean Cinema? An Interview with Minimal Movie Filmmaker Pim de la Parra, Pragmatic Dreamer from Suriname

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Publication date 2015
Journal Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies
Volume | Issue number 6 | 2
Pages (from-to) 84-97
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract Pim de la Parra is a Surinamese filmmaker who started his career in the Netherlands a decade before Suriname’s independence. He is the director of Wan Pipel (One People; 1976), the first Surinamese feature film ever made, and Odyssée d’Amour (Odyssey of Love; 1987), the first Dutch feature film set on a Dutch Caribbean island, Aruba. In this interview with Emiel Martens, De la Parra discusses his model of “minimal moviemaking” as well as the specific challenges of a postcolonial film
industry in a fragmented region such as the Caribbean.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.CCN.6-2.8
Published at https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/imaginations/index.php/imaginations/article/view/27428
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