《雕像也會(huì)死亡》（Les statues meurent aussi，阿蘭·雷乃、克里斯·馬爾凱，1953年出品，27分鐘）尖銳地批評(píng)了西方殖民主義對(duì)非洲傳統(tǒng)藝術(shù)的戕害以及自稱熱愛非洲藝術(shù)的上等階層的貪婪與偽善。本片的主角是來自黑非洲的人物雕像、面具和其他非洲藝術(shù)品，但是它們的演出場(chǎng)所并非黑人的故鄉(xiāng)，而是白人的歐洲，藝術(shù)品市場(chǎng)和藝術(shù)品拍賣會(huì)是它們頻頻出沒和滯留的中轉(zhuǎn)地。這些本來被非洲部族用來抵抗死亡的面具和雕像，如今卻呆在博物館的櫥窗里靜靜地死去。此時(shí)，畫外音告訴我們：“當(dāng)人死去的時(shí)候，他便進(jìn)入了歷史；當(dāng)這些雕像死去的時(shí)候，它們進(jìn)入了藝術(shù)；這種關(guān)于死亡的學(xué)問，我們最后稱之為文化?！庇捎诒酒哂絮r明而強(qiáng)烈的社會(huì)批判意識(shí)，自拍竣之日起即遭到法國政府禁映，直到1963年才解禁。本片由長于剪輯的阿蘭·雷乃操刀剪輯，由強(qiáng)于寫作的克里斯·馬爾凱撰寫解說，充分發(fā)揮了兩人各自的強(qiáng)項(xiàng)，可謂強(qiáng)強(qiáng)合作的結(jié)晶。
　　This collaborative film, banned for more than a decade by French censors as an attack on French colonialism (and now available only in shortened form), is a deeply felt study of African art and the decline it underwent as a result of its contact with Western civilization. Marker's characteristically witty and thoughtful commentary is combined with images of a stark formal beauty in this passionate outcry against the fate of an art that was once integral to communal life but became debased as it fell victim to the demands of another culture.