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Filmmaker Raoul Peck on ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’
After filmmaker Raoul Peck made his award-winning James Baldwin documentary “I Am Not Your Negro,” he had a lot of suitors in Hollywood.
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenAfter filmmaker Raoul Peck made his award-winning James Baldwin documentary “I Am Not Your Negro,” he had a lot of suitors in Hollywood. But it was HBO that didn’t blink when Peck explained what he wanted to do next: a project about colonization, extermination and genocide. That evolved into a four-part series that zigzags through 700 years of colonial history.
Peck describes how he blended archival footage, animation, home videos and scripted sequences to create “Exterminate All the Brutes,” his personal meditation on white supremacy through the ages.
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Read the story8 minIn ‘Exterminate All the Brutes,’ Raoul Peck examines white supremacy through a personal lens
In his new HBO series “Exterminate All the Brutes,” filmmaker Raoul Peck jumps around the world, and goes forward and backward in time, tracing the history of white supremacy and genocide. Peck also narrates the four-part series.
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