Under African Skies

USA2012documentary101'Dźwięki muzyki (2022)

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Graceland, Paul Simon sets off to South Africa where he recorded his famous album with the participation of local musician. It was a controversial decision at that time because of isolationist policy towards South Africa in protest against apartheid, which included the boycott of its culture. Today, Simon explains his motives analyzing the relationship between arts and big politics. The film also features Harry Belafonte, David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, Philip Glass, Whoopi Goldberg and Quincy Jones.

directed by
Joe Berlinger

JOE BERLINGER Film director, producer, commercial director and photographer. For over twenty years he has been making documentary films that win and receive nominations to the most important American film awards (including Emmy, the Directors Guild of America Award and Oscars). Along with feature-length projects he also works for television, among others, on the Emmy winning series Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (2006), Iconoclast (2005-2012) and Paradise Lost (since 1996), whose third part entitled Purgatory (2011) won an Oscar nomination in 2012.

cinematography
Bob Richman
music
Paul Simon
editing
Joshua L. Pearson
production
Joe Berlinger (@radical.media)
Photo
Kadr z filmu Under African Skies