Marseille Après La Guerre - Billy Woodberry

Marseille Après La Guerre, an exquisite short film by legendary L.A. Rebellion filmmaker Billy Woodberry, is both the first salvo of Now! and an embodiment of its values and sensibilities. The piece is materially modest but formally stunning. Told almost entirely through a series of stunning still black and white images, it offers an astonishing portrait of dock workers in Marseille just after the war, and a reflection on the political awakening of the “father of African film,“ Ousmane Sembene. A lyrical description of a disappeared world, Marseille Après La Guerre is redolent of a radical past, while inspiring us to consider the shape and texture of a present and future politics of emancipatory solidarity.