Sarah Maldoror Movies
- 2009

Ana Mercedes Hoyos
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Documentary about Colombian artist Ana Mercedes Hoyos, which deals with slavery and Afro-Caribbean cultures.
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- 1986

First International Conference for Black Women
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In this report on an annual conference known as RIFEN, Black women from around the world gather to discuss points of common interest and need,...
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- 1984

Claudel in Reims
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Sarah Maldoror observes a stage production of Paul Claudel’s The Hostage at the Théâtre de la Comédie in Reims.
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- 1979

Miró, The Painter
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Short piece for the TV series Aujourd'hui en France [Today in France]. Reporting on a Joan Miró exhibition at the Maeght Foundation, Sarah...
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- 1987

Rencontre avec Assia Djebar
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For the France 3 show, Mosaïque, Sarah Maldoror met Assia Djebar on Sunday March 29, 1987 on the occasion of the publication of her book Ombre...
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- 1998

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...
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- 1985

Portrait of an African Woman
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In this segment on immigrant cultures for the television program Mosaïque, a young Senegalese woman who cooks in a workers’ hostel dreams...
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- 1970

Guns for Banta
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Guns for Banta is the first feature-length film by Sarah Maldoror. Shot in Guinea-Bissau, it follows the life and untimely death of Awa, a...
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- 1972

Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir
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Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir describes the problems faced by works in one of Paris’s working-class suburbs.
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- 1979

Fogo, Fire Island
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Documentary about Cape Verde and the island of Fogo produced by the revolutionary government of the new country. A culture learning to live without...
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- 1981

René Depestre, poète haïtien
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Maldoror casts a sympathetic light on one of Haitian literature’s most influential figures, the poet and political activist René...
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- 1986

A Senegalese Man in Normandy
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The Senegalese man of the film’s title is Léopold Sédar Senghor, the poet and first president of Senegal, who is remembered by...
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- 1979

Carnival in the Sahel
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Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture. Carnival is understood here as a festivity during...
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- 1985

Public Writer
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Sarah Maldoror interviews women of different nationalities who serve as “public” writers, linking French administrative bodies with...
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- 1977

The Basilica of Saint-Denis
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A short film about all facets of the Parisian Gothic basilica, which features both a cathedral and a necropolis, the latter containing tombs of...
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- 2011

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...
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- 1996

L'Enfant cinéma
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Film dedicated to Toto Bissainthe, the Haitian singer that Sarah Maldoror also filmed at an earlier stage. Here, the magic of cinema is summoned and...
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- 1989

Vlady
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In this documentary, Sarah Maldoror offers a portrait of the Mexican painter Vlady (1920-2005, born Vladimir Kibaltchich), filming mainly his works...
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- 2026

Scala Milan AC
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Some teenagers sign up for the contest: "Describe your neighborhood", whose first prize is a trip to Milan. As the youngsters are football fans and...
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- 1980

Wielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor
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First staged in Krakow and the Gdansk shipyards in 1980, where Poland’s Solidarity movement was born, and here performed at the...
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