My Neighbours
Mes voisins
1971
Synopsis
Paris in the 1970s. Local African expatriate workers are interviewed, and discuss everyday life and racism in the labor and housing markets.
Editorial
The cultural legacies of colonialism are laid bare in Med Hondo’s shattering short. A fragment of a wider documentary project examining immigrant life in the French capital, My Neighbours weaves an intricate tapestry of activism, animation, and direct cinema techniques to rattle the cages of form.
