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Jan 31, 2023 · As we celebrate his 100th year and rediscover his films, we can gain a better understanding of Sembène, and the themes of his work, by looking at the turns his life took that led him to cinema ...
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Having blazed a trail for African filmmakers to tell their own stories on-screen, Senegalese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-long project—to unlock cinema’s potential as a vehicle for social change—in increasingly urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s. Searing critiques of colonialism, political corruption, patriarchal arrogance, and religious indoctrination, his three ...
Jun 7, 2021 · La Noire de… (Black Girl, 1966), Sembène’s first feature-length film, is a powerful exploration of immigrant experience. Thérèse Mbissine Diop – who recently returned to acting for Maïmouna Doucouré’s coming-of-age film Cuties (2020) – delivers a stunning performance as Diouana, a young Senegalese girl moving to France to work for a married couple, only to find herself ...
Jan 23, 2017 · Black Girl: Self, Possessed. If Africans do not tell their own stories, Africa will soon disappear. —Ousmane Sembène. L ong before his death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Ousmane Sembène was widely recognized as the father of African cinema. Yet he worked in film for less than half of his life. At forty-three, he wrote and directed his ...
May 21, 2024 · Sembène’s contributions to African cinema were more wide-ranging than has been suggested by these reductive categories and hyperboles of patriarchal singularity. A founding member of the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI)—a collective committed to using film in service of political, cultural, and economic liberation—he was, if anything, one of the many uncles of African cinema.
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THE SEMBENE PROJECT. Sembène was born in 1923 in Casamance, in southern Senegal. Expelled from school in the sixth grade, he was, at age 14, sent to Dakar where, while working as a laborer, he discovered literature, comic books and the movies. In 1944, Sembène was drafted into the French army, an experience that broadened his horizons ...
