The films of Sarah Maldoror
Of Antillean origin, Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020) is a poet who endeavors to translate into images and sounds the cultural, social, and political movement of négritude, a literary and political movement created during the interwar period. She proposes a new visual and narrative syntax for a different identity. Her work began in theater with the creation of the first all-black theater company (Les Griots), and after studying cinema in Moscow, she joined international decolonization movements. Her luminous cinematic oeuvre includes over 40 films, both short and feature-length, fiction films, and documentaries. Her gaze notably focused on poets Aimé Césaire, René Depestre, or Louis Aragon, as well as painters Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Joan Miró, or Vlady. Her films reflect that of a valiant fighter, curious about everything, generous, irreverent, and concerned about others, who gloriously carried the poetic beyond all borders. A rebel with outspokenness, a resolute humanist, she celebrated the artist's commitment and art as an act of freedom.
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Courtesy of Annouchka de Andrade & Henda Ducados
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Monangambéee
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With a jazz soundtrack from the Art Ensemble of Chicago, this film denounces the crimes committed by the Portuguese in Angola. Here, we see the torture of a prisoner that results from the colonizer’s ignorance. A song whose meaning is “White Death”, _Monangambéee_, is a rallying cry against the colonial abuses in Angola.
And the Dogs Were Quiet
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_And the Dogs Were Quiet_ is based on recorded excerpts from Aimé Césaire’s play of the same name where the rebel expresses himself in a long pain-racked poem in front of the mother, crying out loud his revolt against the enslavement of his people. Gabriel Glissant and Sarah Maldoror appear as actors at the Museum of Man in Paris which is devoted to Black Africa, integrating three spectators in...
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
Duration: 52 minutesPortrait of the Guadeloupean filmmaker Sarah Maldoror and her political struggle for the freedom of African peoples. A committed filmmaker, she has always believed in the importance of cinema to depict political and social changes and struggles for independence. Having gained real-life experience during the bloody conflicts stemming from colonialism, she expresses herself through cinema, claimi...
Monangambéee
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With a jazz soundtrack from the Art Ensemble of Chicago, this film denounces the crimes committed by the Portuguese in Angola. Here, we see the torture of a prisoner that results from the colonizer’s ignorance. A song whose meaning is “White Death”, _Monangambéee_, is a rallying cry against the colonial abuses in Angola.
And the Dogs Were Quiet
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_And the Dogs Were Quiet_ is based on recorded excerpts from Aimé Césaire’s play of the same name where the rebel expresses himself in a long pain-racked poem in front of the mother, crying out loud his revolt against the enslavement of his people. Gabriel Glissant and Sarah Maldoror appear as actors at the Museum of Man in Paris which is devoted to Black Africa, integrating three spectators in...
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
Duration: 52 minutesPortrait of the Guadeloupean filmmaker Sarah Maldoror and her political struggle for the freedom of African peoples. A committed filmmaker, she has always believed in the importance of cinema to depict political and social changes and struggles for independence. Having gained real-life experience during the bloody conflicts stemming from colonialism, she expresses herself through cinema, claimi...
