Sarah Maldoror Movies

  • 1987
    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    01987HD

    Aimé Césaire - Le Masque des mots is a portrait of the Martinican writer who calls himself a rebellious negro and for whom the poetic...

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words
  • 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

    02002HD

    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
  • 1972
    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

    01972HD

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir describes the problems faced by works in one of Paris’s working-class suburbs.

    Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir
  • 2003
    Memory's Gaze

    Memory's Gaze

    Memory's Gaze

    02003HD

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

    Memory's Gaze
  • 1980
    Wifredo Lam

    Wifredo Lam

    Wifredo Lam

    01980HD

    Maldoror reports on a painting exhibition of the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam at the Artcurial gallery in Paris in 1980.

    Wifredo Lam
  • 1979
    Miró, The Painter

    Miró, The Painter

    Miró, The Painter

    01979HD

    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
  • 1986
    Point Virgule, Youth Journal

    Point Virgule, Youth Journal

    Point Virgule, Youth Journal

    01986HD

    In this short piece, fledgling editors, reporters, and illustrators describe their work on Point Virgule, a newspaper by and for young people,...

    Point Virgule, Youth Journal
  • 1980
    Carnival in Bissau

    Carnival in Bissau

    Carnival in Bissau

    01980HD

    Documentary short that explores the meaning of the locals’ African identity through the Carnival festivities.

    Carnival in Bissau
  • 1984
    Robert Lapoujade, peintre

    Robert Lapoujade, peintre

    Robert Lapoujade, peintre

    01984HD

    Portrait of the French painter-etcher, lithographer and director.

    Robert Lapoujade, peintre
  • 1986
    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library

    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library

    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library

    01986HD

    Commemorating the 1986 Tunis-Paris exhibition Privileged Spaces and Times: French-Speaking Intellectual Production in Tunisia, Sarah Maldoror’s...

    Tunisian Literature at the French National Library
  • 1976
    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

    101976HD

    Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe...

    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre
  • 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
  • 1986
    Alberto Carlisky

    Alberto Carlisky

    Alberto Carlisky

    01986HD

    Maldoror traces the dramatic life of the self-taught sculptor Alberto Carlisky, who fled his native Argentina after being imprisoned in 1944 by the...

    Alberto Carlisky
  • 1978
    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    01978HD

    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
  • 1979
    Fogo, Fire Island

    Fogo, Fire Island

    Fogo, Fire Island

    01979HD

    Documentary about Cape Verde and the island of Fogo produced by the revolutionary government of the new country. A culture learning to live without...

    Fogo, Fire Island
  • 2009
    Ana Mercedes Hoyos

    Ana Mercedes Hoyos

    Ana Mercedes Hoyos

    02009HD

    Documentary about Colombian artist Ana Mercedes Hoyos, which deals with slavery and Afro-Caribbean cultures.

    Ana Mercedes Hoyos
  • 1984
    Toto Bissainthe

    Toto Bissainthe

    Toto Bissainthe

    01984HD

    A portrait of Haitian singer Toto Bissainthe, whose musical journey is marked by her desire to disseminate creole singing.

    Toto Bissainthe
  • 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

    01999HD

    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
    Carnival in the Sahel

    Carnival in the Sahel

    Carnival in the Sahel

    01979HD

    Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture. Carnival is understood here as a festivity during...

    Carnival in the Sahel
  • 2005
    Les oiseaux mains

    Les oiseaux mains

    Les oiseaux mains

    02005HD

    A short animation about motion and poetry.

    Les oiseaux mains