Sarah Maldoror Movies

  • 1976
    And the Dogs Were Silent

    And the Dogs Were Silent

    And the Dogs Were Silent

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    For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a...

    And the Dogs Were Silent
  • 2002
    Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema

    Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema

    Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema

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    Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, Beti Ellerson’s engaging debut intersperses...

    Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema
  • 2009
    Eia pour Césaire

    Eia pour Césaire

    Eia pour Césaire

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    Shortly after his death in 2008, Maldoror made this film about her longtime friend and collaborator, the Négritude poet Aimé...

    Eia pour Césaire
  • 2011
    Foreword to Guns for Banta

    Foreword to Guns for Banta

    Foreword to Guns for Banta

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    Originally an analog slide show made for two projectors, this work recounts the making of Sarah Maldoror's lost and surely never-to-be-seen first...

    Foreword to Guns for Banta
  • 1987
    Le Passager du Tassili

    Le Passager du Tassili

    Le Passager du Tassili

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    Omar, a young Franco-Algerian from La Garenne-Colombes, decided to spend his vacation in the country of his ancestors, Algeria. On his return, he...

    Le Passager du Tassili
  • 1985
    Portrait of an African Woman

    Portrait of an African Woman

    Portrait of an African Woman

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    After an interview whose theme is Senegalese immigrants in France, a piece by Sarah Maldoror appears. This is about the role of African women in...

    Portrait of an African Woman
  • 1999
    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie

    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie

    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie

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    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie is a Togolese short documentary film directed by Anne-Laure Folly. It was released in 1999. The film is a...

    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
  • 1979
    Un carnaval dans le Sahel

    Un carnaval dans le Sahel

    Un carnaval dans le Sahel

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    Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture.

    Un carnaval dans le Sahel
  • 2005
    Les oiseaux mains

    Les oiseaux mains

    Les oiseaux mains

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    A short animation about motion and poetry.

    Les oiseaux mains
  • 1979
    Miró, The Painter

    Miró, The Painter

    Miró, The Painter

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    Short piece for the TV series Aujourd'hui en France [Today in France]. The review of an exhibition by Miró at the Maeght Foundation offers the...

    Miró, The Painter
  • 2003
    Regards de mémoire

    Regards de mémoire

    Regards de mémoire

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    The filmmaker Sarah Maldoror films the writer Édouard Glissant at the Fort de Joux (in the Jura), in the cell where the Haitian general...

    Regards de mémoire
  • 1978
    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

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    There is a gap separating the surrealism from the Interwar period and that of the post-war era, and that is the way this movement would understand...

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris
  • 1998
    Tribu du bois de l'E

    Tribu du bois de l'E

    Tribu du bois de l'E

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    In this documentary about Reunion Island, Maldoror begins with a look at an exhibition by sculptor Alain Seraphine, with automated drumming machines...

    Tribu du bois de l'E