It’s a pity that most movie lovers know so little, if anything, about African cinema, for the continent’s filmmakers have much to say. The one film some viewers may recognize is “Black Girl” (1966), a ...
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A historic confrontation in 1965 between Jean Rouch and Ousmane Sembène : "You look at us as if we were insects" / Albert Cervoni -- Ousmane Sembène : for me, the cinema is an instrument of political ...
The Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène earned his reputation as the father of African cinema with a series of brilliant movies. Socialist and anti-colonial politics had a profound influence on ...
When African filmmaker Ousmane Sembene died at 84 in Dakar, Senegal, earlier this month, the world duly took note. Sembene had lived a remarkable life that spanned most of the 20th century and beyond, ...
A fierce work of quasi-neorealist melodrama that melds pop cinema instincts and political indignation, Lino Brocka’s 1980 feature endures as a lively, searing parable on the plight of Filipino women ...
Originally published in The short century: independence and liberation movements in Africa, 1945-1994 (Munich: Prestel, 2001), pages 440-441. HISTORIC CONFRONTATION BETWEEN JEAN ROUCH AND OUSMANE ...
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