Badou Boy
The recurrent cycle Noir.e.s à la caméra allows us to discover works directed or produced by African or Afrodescendant filmmakers throughout the history of cinema.
The journey of a light emitting being through a dark and ancient world ridden with forgotten knowledge. What is the purpose of this creature's existence? Does it have a purpose to begin with? (Annecy Festival)
Poursuite comique dans les rues de Dakar d'un gamin malicieux par un gros gendarme. Le cinéaste en profite pour présenter quelques aspects de la vie dans la capitale où se profilent certaines critiques.
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Djibril Diop Mambéty was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. In 1969, at age 23, without any formal training in filmmaking, Mambéty directed and produced his first short film, Contras' City (City of Contrasts). The following year Mambéty made another short, Badou Boy, which won the Silver Tanit award at the 1970 Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia. Though he made only two feature films and five short films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style. (Wikipedia)
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Corps d’acteurs et jeu de transgression de symboles
Le cinéaste sénégalais s’inscrit à sa manière et avec ses moyens dans un mouvement où cinéma et théâtre dialoguent constamment. La modernité esthétique qu’il revendique également se nourrit d’une série de transferts et d’emprunts qui font du corps le point à partir duquel tensions, contradictions et approximations nouent et dénouent le sens...
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