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Abloni
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Filmmaker Name:
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Alexandre Oktan
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Film Length:
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52 min
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Film Year:
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2005
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Duration:
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46-75 min
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Decade:
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2000s
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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Africa
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Subject:
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Popular Culture and Consumption
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You give an old shirt or dress to a charity. Then, you forget all about it. But - without knowing it - you have had a huge impact on people you don't know, people throughout the world; and that impact is not all good. By following the strange, colorful, unpredictable voyage of one second hand shirt, Abloni plunges us into the huge worldwide business of second hand clothes.
In a variety of styles, exploring a vast range of locations, and entering into the lives of a colorful cast of characters, Abloni reveals how the second hand clothes business creates a livelihood for a whole chain of wholesalers and retailers; how it supports charities and recycles waste products in rich countries; how it destroys the textile industries and traditions in poor countries; how it revolutionizes style and fashion in places as far away as a small village in central Togo; how wearing the simplest bit of clothing - like a second hand shirt from Canada - becomes, in an African village, a political, economic, and cultural statement; and how it has led, too, to the birth of a new hybrid African style, creatively mixing western fashions and local textiles and patterns.
As the camera weaves in and out, we follow the shirt as it is picked up, transported to a sorting centre, sorted, bundled, shipped overseas to Lomé, the principal port of Togo, and sold, then sold again, then finally sold to someone who will wear it. In its suspense-filled, picturesque, colorful, intensely human way, Abloni reveals to us an unknown cross section of the economic structure of our contemporary world.
SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Enviro Prize, The Environment Film Festival, Portneuf, Quebec, Canada, 2005
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca, NY, 2009
Broadcasts
TeleQuebec, Canada, 2005
TFO, Canada, 2005
Abloni
Réalisation
Alexandre Oktan
Concept original
Alexandre Oktan
Consultante en scénarisation et en réalisation
Lara Fitzgerald
Scénaristes
Lara Fitzgerald
Alexandre Oktan
Recherchiste
Valéry Vlad
Directeur de photographie
Mark Caswell
Preneur de son
Margus Jukkum
Montage
Julie Moureau
Directrice de production
Isabelle Combre
Coordonnatrice de production
Lucile Baruchel
Coordonnatrice de production Afrique
Astrid Audibert-Bilgo
Assistant à la production
Joël Robichaud
Secrétaire de production
Valérie Bernier
Tournage secondaire Montréal
Michel Kinked, caméra
Daniel Lapointe, preneur de son
Tournage secondaire Toronto
Steve Adamcryck, camera
Scott Chappel, preneur de son
Postproduction
Isabelle Combre
Mixage
Kitchen Sync Digital Audio
Kevin Tokar
Dustin Harris
Administration de production
Lucile Baruchel
Comptable de production
Howard Fraiberg
Participants
Vicky Abel
Daniel Castro
Jean Cayer
Huguette Corbo
Quevi Dédé Jessie
Samlek Egwuonwu
Didier Gondola
Amouzou Kodjo
Jean Laroche
Nancy Leblanc
Ahmed Mawla
Do Rego Kiki Mayamon
Jean Ndukwo
M. Mobu K. Novinyo
David Obasu
Samuel Sampson
Richard Sauvé
Rock Tardif
Prince Agbodjan Togbé Doté
Steeve Villeneuve
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