There’d already been a ProPublica article. So what more could celebrated director Raoul Peck bring to the table? His personal connection to the issue at stake for starters.
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Apr. 27, 2021Hollywood MORE The four-part series “Exterminate All the Brutes” tackles the origins of racism and white supremacy over 600 years. Credit: YouTube.
Filmmaker Raoul Peck’s four-part series on HBO Max, “Exterminate All the Brutes,” tackles the origins of racism and white supremacy over 600 years. He uses archival footage, old Hollywood movies, and animation. He also recreates historical scenes with actor Josh Hartnett as a white racist everyman.
Peck is Haitian but grew up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, the U.S., and Germany. He weaves in his personal story while narrating the series: “As a filmmaker, I am compelled to stay hidden in the background, restrained, moderate, balanced, judicious, neutral even. You learn to avoid becoming the subject of your film. It’s not about you unless the story is bigger than you.”
Filmmaker Raoul Peck answers a question posed by Sundance Film Festival Director Tabitha Jackson about his new miniseries, Exterminate All the Brutes, during a panel discussion, The Big Converstation The Past in the Present: A Personal Journey Through Race, History and Filmmaking.
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Filmmaker Raoul Peck found himself in a state of indecision after the release of his award-winning 2016 documentary “I Am Not Your Negro.”
Peck felt the film, which was based on the late writer and activist James Baldwin’s unfinished work “Remember This House,” said everything he wanted to say about the history of race in the United States.