簡介：　　It’s winter in France, the light is dull, the camera pans over a snowy wasteland and enters a massive construction of steel and glass that is open at the sides, stopping in front of the reproduction of a wooden ship. The structure that juts out over the upper deck is inscribed with the words ‘Liberté, égalité, Fraternité’.
　　Med Hondo uses this tracking shot to establish the setting of his feature film West Indies ou les nègres marrons de la liberté (1979), while opening up a much larger space to the imagination at the same time. The ship turns out to be a most versatile stage for a grotesque narrative of colonialism, slavery and the struggle for independence in the French West Indies. Med Hondo explores his many themes in this limited space, whether it be the Middle Passage, marronage, abolition or the history of labour migration to France. The film marries an aesthetics of thrift with the flamboyance of a musical; different time periods glide into one other as elegantly as the geographical points of reference; and only occasionally do the actors’ visible exhalations, an alienation effect created by the cold, remind us that West Indies was not shot on Martinique.

簡介：　　影片《火海情濤》由羅克韋爾·托里（約翰·韋恩 飾）隊長和指揮員保羅·埃丁頓（柯克·道格拉斯 飾）二人展開，他們是被日本攻擊后珍珠港海軍的幸存者，他們努力修復(fù)戰(zhàn)艦準備報復(fù)。與此同時，托里與護士瑪吉·海恩斯（帕德里夏·妮爾 飾）正在熱戀中。并且希望恢復(fù)與他疏遠的兒子杰里邁亞（Brandon De Wilde 飾）：一名年輕的海軍軍官的關(guān)系。影片精彩而真實的呈現(xiàn)了戰(zhàn)爭的情況，并且榮獲第38屆奧斯卡金像獎：黑白片最佳攝影提名。