Three films by Sarah Maldoror
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Friday, February 9th, 7:00PM
$15 general admission / $7 reduced price
TICKETS
Co-presented with the
Maysles Documentary Center
343 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY 10027
take the 2/3 train or Metro North to 125th Street
The Broodthaers Society of America is pleased to team up with the Maysles Documentary Center to screen and discuss three films by Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020), the groundbreaking filmmaker often referred to as the mother of African cinema. Maldoror is remembered not only for her lifelong insistence that oppressed people be able to tell their own stories, but also for her nuanced handling of documentary and narrative affects.
With this in mind the Broodthaers Society and Maysles Center will screen three of Maldoror's more threnodic, allusive, and playful films, each one representing a different aspect of her love for poetry and the power of film to convey it. For example, we might say that Les chiens se taisaient is "a film about a poem set in a museum" in the same way that Marcel Broodthaers' A Voyage on the North Sea is "a film about a painting set in a book." This isn't to imply that Maldoror was somehow indebted to Broodthaers, just to notice their shared interest in the post-medium condition and their shared belief in fiction's ability to depict reality in ways that reality itself cannot.
The Maysles Center program will be:
Et les chiens se taisaient (And the Dogs Fell Silent), 1971, 13 mins
Au bout du petit matin, Césaire un homme, une terre (A Man, A Land: Césaire), 1977, 52 mins
Un masque à Paris: Louis Aragon (A Mask in Paris: Louis Aragon), 1978,
13 mins
A panel discussion with Annouchka de Andrade and film scholar Amy Sall will accompany the screening, followed by a reception. A limited number of print journals published by the Palais de Tokyo, titled Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema, will also be available on a first come first served basis.
Annouchka de Andrade has been the Artistic Director of International Film Festival of Amiens, a film festival focused on authors cinema and African and South American films. With over 30 years of experience, Annouchka has worked in international cultural cooperation with a strong focus on audio-visuals, cultural heritage, and production in France, Spain, Columbia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru and Equator. She provided technical assistance to Sarah Maldoror for the last 20 years.
With her sister Henda Ducados, they have developed the Association Les amis de Sarah & Mario to preserve and share Sarah Maldoror's and Mario de Andrade’s work. The path of two individuals who fought for African independence and cultural emancipation. Crucial to their work is the restoration of films and the archiving of documents, correspondences, manuscripts, and unfinished screenplays.
Amy Sall is a writer, independent researcher, and collector-archivist based in New York. She is the founding editor of SUNU: Journal of African Affairs, Critical Thought, + Aesthetics, a pan-African, post-disciplinary platform exploring the cultural and intellectual production of Africa and its diaspora across time and space. Amy holds a master's degree in human rights studies from Columbia University. As a Part-time Lecturer at The New School she introduced two new courses: “The African Gaze: Visual Culture of Postcolonial Africa and the Social Imagination” and “Third Cinema & the Counter Narratives.” The Sall Collection, a private initiative, is an assemblage of studio and other vernacular photography, printed matter, and ephemera with a pan-African focus. Amy's work and interests explore the theory and praxis of cultural sovereignty, cultural preservation, anti-/de-/post-coloniality, human rights, visual culture, and the archive.
All images reproduced here are courtesy of Annouchka de Andrade & Henda Ducados.
Friday, February 9th, 7:00PM
$15 general admission / $7 reduced price
TICKETS
Co-presented with the
Maysles Documentary Center
343 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY 10027
take the 2/3 train or Metro North to 125th Street
The Broodthaers Society of America is pleased to team up with the Maysles Documentary Center to screen and discuss three films by Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020), the groundbreaking filmmaker often referred to as the mother of African cinema. Maldoror is remembered not only for her lifelong insistence that oppressed people be able to tell their own stories, but also for her nuanced handling of documentary and narrative affects.
With this in mind the Broodthaers Society and Maysles Center will screen three of Maldoror's more threnodic, allusive, and playful films, each one representing a different aspect of her love for poetry and the power of film to convey it. For example, we might say that Les chiens se taisaient is "a film about a poem set in a museum" in the same way that Marcel Broodthaers' A Voyage on the North Sea is "a film about a painting set in a book." This isn't to imply that Maldoror was somehow indebted to Broodthaers, just to notice their shared interest in the post-medium condition and their shared belief in fiction's ability to depict reality in ways that reality itself cannot.
The Maysles Center program will be:
Et les chiens se taisaient (And the Dogs Fell Silent), 1971, 13 mins
Au bout du petit matin, Césaire un homme, une terre (A Man, A Land: Césaire), 1977, 52 mins
Un masque à Paris: Louis Aragon (A Mask in Paris: Louis Aragon), 1978,
13 mins
A panel discussion with Annouchka de Andrade and film scholar Amy Sall will accompany the screening, followed by a reception. A limited number of print journals published by the Palais de Tokyo, titled Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema, will also be available on a first come first served basis.
Annouchka de Andrade has been the Artistic Director of International Film Festival of Amiens, a film festival focused on authors cinema and African and South American films. With over 30 years of experience, Annouchka has worked in international cultural cooperation with a strong focus on audio-visuals, cultural heritage, and production in France, Spain, Columbia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru and Equator. She provided technical assistance to Sarah Maldoror for the last 20 years.
With her sister Henda Ducados, they have developed the Association Les amis de Sarah & Mario to preserve and share Sarah Maldoror's and Mario de Andrade’s work. The path of two individuals who fought for African independence and cultural emancipation. Crucial to their work is the restoration of films and the archiving of documents, correspondences, manuscripts, and unfinished screenplays.
Amy Sall is a writer, independent researcher, and collector-archivist based in New York. She is the founding editor of SUNU: Journal of African Affairs, Critical Thought, + Aesthetics, a pan-African, post-disciplinary platform exploring the cultural and intellectual production of Africa and its diaspora across time and space. Amy holds a master's degree in human rights studies from Columbia University. As a Part-time Lecturer at The New School she introduced two new courses: “The African Gaze: Visual Culture of Postcolonial Africa and the Social Imagination” and “Third Cinema & the Counter Narratives.” The Sall Collection, a private initiative, is an assemblage of studio and other vernacular photography, printed matter, and ephemera with a pan-African focus. Amy's work and interests explore the theory and praxis of cultural sovereignty, cultural preservation, anti-/de-/post-coloniality, human rights, visual culture, and the archive.
All images reproduced here are courtesy of Annouchka de Andrade & Henda Ducados.