THE NUBA AND AFRICA
Leni Riefenstahl made a journey to Africa to search for locations for her film Black Cargo in the 1960's. The film never was never completed. Multiple obstructions plagued the project and eventually funding and support was pulled by Cargo's producers with "much regret". It seemed to Riefenstahl that backing of the film was attacked because of her legacy with Adolph Hitler and the Third Reich. Yet, while in Africa, Leni Riefenstahl took note of the negative impact that western civilization had had on the native people and their customs. Coming across a photographic series of the Nuba tribe, Riefenstahl was fascinated by area accounts that they remained untouched by modern civilization. It was certainly her own willful ambition which propelled her to suffer much in a quest to witness this culture of a bygone era.
However, on this initial sojourn, Riefenstahl would not locate them. The contact she longed for would have to wait for her return visit.
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