A Film by Susan Vogel
8 minutes
color-b&w
2001


FANG mixes documentary and fiction techniques to recount an African art object's journey through a century of peril and adventure, and uses the film styles of each historical period to tell its story-100 years of Western attitudes towards African culture packed into 8 minutes.

"Fast, funny and provocative. The film focuses attention on the arbitrary and changing nature of the categories of 'art' in Western culture and raises important questions about the integrity of the object and the relationship between museum exhibition of objects and their value on the art market." -Professor Jean Borgatti, Clark University

"In a thoroughly inventive approach to its topic, this crisp black and white drama explores the ways in which African art has been appropriated through time and space" -Margaret Mead Film Festival